Bay Area Reporter, Volume 17, Number 21, 21 May 1987

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On Holiday: Memorial
Day weekend is early
this year and we have
the complete listing of
events for the celebra¬
tions from Golden Gate
Bridge walks to non¬
stop dancing to the
Candlelight March. See
pages 3 and 5.

Healthy Adaptation: A
new study shows same-
sex couples are morean-
timate with each other
and more flexible, page
16.

Kings Go Forth: Mr.
Marcus previews this
weekend's International
Mr. Leather contest in
Chicago, page 32.

OFFICE CLOSED
MEMORIAL DAY
MONDAY,
MAY 25
Classified
Deadline
Friday, May 22
5 p.m.

Persistent Mugger
Nabbed by Cops

Poses as Volunteer; Terrorizes PWA

by Will Snyder

A San Francisco man with AIDS was the victim of brutality
and robbery last week. But his alleged assailant has been
locked up by police because he failed to remember something
common in any grade-B detective movie: never return to the
scene of the crime.

Antonio Hartley, 22, has been
charged with first degree rob¬
bery, a felony. He is locked up in
the San Francisco County Jail
with bail set at $20,000, Even if
someone posts bail for him, he
has already been given a “stay-
away” order by Judge Ronald
Quidachay.

Hartley is alleged to have
entered the home of the person
with AIDS on Sunday, May 10.
The PWA, who wishes to remain
anonymous, subscribes to the
meal plan of Project Open Hand,
a program which delivers hot
meals to people with AIDS. The
gay man said his lover had left
the apartment only moments
earlier to return some movie
tapes the two had rented. While
his lover was gone, the man said,
he experienced a particularly
horrible type of terror.

“This guy got on the intercom
and said he was Armando with
Project Open Hand,” said the gay
man, “so I buzzed him in.”

What followed was a night¬
mare. Hartley is alleged to have
entered the apartment because
he “wanted to talk,” Soon, ac¬
cording to Kevin Roe, a client ad¬
vocate with Community United
Against Violence (CUAV), Hart¬
ley asked the gay man if he want¬
ed a massage. After that request
was refused. Hartley allegedly
pushed him down, tried to stran¬
gle him with a telephone cord
and then proceeded to rob him of
$30 in cash, a gold watch, gold
chains and gold pendants. The
assailant also got the PWA to
write him a check for $200.

Roe said that Hartley returned
to the apartment twice and
(Continued on next page)

Just catching his breath. This young man was one of thou¬
sands who ran in Sunday's Bay to Breakers. Allen White gives
you the whole story on page 14. (Photo: James Dusch)

Rivers Axed; Show
T Ratings

Out-Paced Carson;
Among Gay Viewers

by Allen White

'There is speculation that Joan Rivers will return to her
hosting position on The Late Show and nothing could make
KTVTJ happier. “We wouldn’t be surprised if they made up
and things went on,” said Channel 2 spokesperson Micki
Byrnes. The controversial, sometimes raucous, hosting of
Rivers was abruptly brought to a halt with last Friday night’s
program. Earlier that day announcements were made that she
was being taken off the show as host by Fox Broadcasting
which produces the show. (Continued on next page)

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Couple's Ten Years Together
Means Nothing, Says Judge

Lawsuit Pioneering Rights of Gay Couples
Given Little Chance in Deukmej/an Supreme Court

by Ed Power

The killer who took the life of James Crabtree’s lover of ten years, Jack Allen, took more
than he knew. Not only did he end a relationship, but his act began a legal nightmare for
Crabtree. That nightmare has yet to have its final scene played out.

On the night of Sept. 3,1983, Allen died in Crabtree’s arms from a stab wound that had
severed his juglar vein. Crabtree and Allen were at a party given by several of their friends
in the small town of Waterford. Several hours into the party, Crabtree’s attention was drawn
by a commotion on the front lawn. When he went out to investigate, he found Allen, bleeding
profusely and struggling to crawl toward the house. He had been stabbed in the throat by
another guest at the party, Paul Spradlin. (Continued on page 23)

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Sought By LAPD

Los Angeles Police are looking for the man pictured above in relation
to the death of Charles Nover, 42, of North Hollywood. Never died April
22 as the result of strangulation.

The man being sought is reported to use the name David A. Phillips.
He is described as Caucasian, S'lO" to 6T " in height, thin build, 27-33
years of age, with black or dark brown medium length hair and a neatly
groomed mustache. He is believed to be a transient from Texas.

Anyone with information regarding this person, is asked to call Los
Angeles police detectives Sowers, Harley, or Landgren at North Holly¬
wood Station, (213) 989-8831 or 989-8822. •

(Continued from page 1)

The reason given was the in¬
ability of Rivers to maintain
ratings across the country to
justify the presentation of the
show. The goal of the network was
to have the show make a credible
dent against Johnny Carson.

But in the San Francisco view¬
ing area, along with New York
City, Joan Rivers has been ex¬
tremely successful. Viewers in the
Bay Area watched the show in
such numbers that it was not un¬
usual for the show to beat the
Johnny Carson Tonight Show.

KTVU’s Micki Byrnes noted
that the demographics for the
show were always better than
Johnny Carson. “Joan Rivers had
the important 18-34 audience
wrapped up for herself. Our
salesmen were always able to eas¬
ily sell Joan,” she said, “and it
always was sold out.”

One primary reason for the
success of Joan Rivers in San
Francisco was her appeal to the
gay community. She had ap¬
peared before gay audiences in
concert and in nightclubs before
the show debuted and geared
much of her material for gays.

One of the most outrageous
and openly gay programs aired
on network television was the
New Year’s Eve Joan Rivers pro¬
gram. Her guests included San
Francisco’s Sylvester and
Charles Nelson Reilly.

“I am not a drag queen, I am
Sylvester,” was one of the more
memorable remarks by Sylvester
on the show. It may have been one
of the first times that an openly
gay performer has been allowed
to discuss his lover relationship.

In the course of the show, Joan
Rivers congratulated Sylvester
for his two-and-a-half-year rela¬
tionship with his lover, Rick
Cranmer. They also discussed
Sylvester’s wedding rings, his
love of jewelry and his desire for
sable.

Gel Effective
Against Herpes

GREAT NECK, NY - Exo
vir, Inc. recently announced that
in a clinical study testing of the
efficacy of Exovir-HZ Gel against
oral herpes, the topical prepara¬
tion demonstrated significant ef¬
fectiveness when used at the first
indication of an outbreak.

In the double blind study,
which was directed by Dr. Donald
Lookingbill of the Pennsylvania
State University School of Medi¬
cine, the Gel was applied three
times daily for five days. The
study included more than 50 pa¬
tients, and 79 percent of those
receiving the drug had negative
cultures by day three, compared
to 37 percent with placebo. Once
a negative culture is achieved, the
disease cannot be transmitted.

Ruth Brinker (Photo: Rink)

Sylvester took the opportunity
to thank Joan Rivers for her
pioneering efforts in AIDS fund¬
raising. Almost five years ago,
“before it became fashionable,”
stated Sylvester, Rivers appeared
at a major fundraiser at Studio
One in West Hollywood. It was
one of the first AIDS fundraisers
and featuring Rivers, Sylvester
and Charles Nelson Reilly, was a
major event for raising the aware¬
ness to the disease in the enter¬
tainment community.

All of this type of sophisticated
entertainment apparently was
unable to garner a large viewer-
ship in middle America. New
York, San Francisco, and Los
Angeles were the only three cities
where the show appeard to be
making a dent.

Earlier this week Pee Wee Her-

In addition, for those receiving
the drug, lesion healing time was
shortened. The study also dem¬
onstrated that the drug is more
effective when used at the first in¬
dication of infection, as opposed
to use only after the lesions ap¬
pear.

Exovir-HZ Gel is a patented
combination of alpha interferon
and nonoxynol 9, an antiviral sur¬
factant.

“These preliminary results are
the first from a large multi-center
study now underway, and we are
very encouraged by the find¬
ings,” said Maxwell Powell, Ex-
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tive officer. “It further confirms
results obtained in a study, which
was reported in the November
1986 issue of the Journal of Der¬
matology, on the efficacy of the
drug in the treatment of genital.
herpes,” he said.

Mugger

(Continued from page 1)
pounded on the door once. Police
were summoned on May 14 and
Hartley was arrested.

The gay man feels that Hartley
may have been watching his
apartment for quite some time.
Not only did the robber know his
name, but also that the man was
gay and was subscribing to the
meal service. “He seemed to
have a good knowledge of the en¬
tire situation,” said the gay man,
who indicated Hartley may have
read an order slip which was left
on the doorstep with his food.

man became a guest host and ap¬
peared to have totally unnerved
his guest Frankie Avalon. KTVU,
and other network guest hosts
this week have also included
George Carlin and Howie Man-
del.

Monday night Rivers’ name
still appeared on the title slides
of the show. This, and entertain¬
ment industry dynamics, make
speculation of Joan Rivers’ re¬
turn credible.

The Late Show with Joan
Rivers was the first show pro¬
duced and broadcast by the Fox
Broadcasting network. Fox is at¬
tempting to develop a fourth tele¬
vision network and there is rea¬
son to believe that the total audi¬
ence makeup of the show with
Joan Rivers could lead the net¬
work officials to keep her on the
show. •

PROUD STRONG UNITED

Ruth Brinker, director of Proj¬
ect Open Hand, said security
precautions are being initiated to
avoid a repeat of the recent inci¬
dent. She declined to elaborate,
but said that “we are sending out
notices to our people to be care¬
ful” with how any information is
dispensed.

But even care in the future
won’t wipe away the nightmare
that this man felt recently. It has
been a common theme for gay
people: violence and religion.
“He said Cod asked him to do
this,” said the gay man.

Hartley was arraigned on May
15. IVial date is set for Monday,
June 1. •

BAY AREA REPORTER MAY 21, 1987 PAGE 2

Weekend to Remember

Bridge Celebration, Candlelight March
Highlight Memorial Weekend

by Allen White

The annual AIDS Memorial Candlelight March, many par¬
ties and the 50th birthday of the Golden Gate Bridge provide
the framework for a diversified holiday weekend of fun in San
Francisco.

Early on Sunday, May 24, will be the annual Mint Tricycle
Race. TTie race starts at the S.F. Eagle at 12th and Harrison
with festivities starting at noon. The race then makes its way
through the city and ends at The Mint on Market Street near
Duboce. Once the race concludes there will be partying and
craziness the remainder of the day at the Mint. The Mint
Tricycle Race is a charity event with proceeds going to Shanti.

It's a time to celebrate the Big 5-0 for the Golden Gate Bridge. Don (left) and Carlos (right)
join in the celebration. (B.A.R. Photo: Brian Jones)

There are going to be many
spectacular parties throughout
the weekend. The Trocadero
Transfer is presenting three days
of events. Friday night is their
Construction Party called “Build
Me A Bridge” from 10 p.m. till
6 a.m. Admission is $5 with
leather, levi’s or other construc¬
tion attire; $7 if you’re wearing
anything else.

Saturday night the event is
called “Take Me to the Bridge”
and the cost is $7. The Sunday
night party is called “Jeanette
MacDonald Presents 50 Years
and Still Swing-In.” It is a tribute
to “our golden lady of the West.”
The admission is $10 and the DJ
for the night is Robbie Leslie.

At the Galleria, there will be a
party themed to the Golden Gate
Bridge celebration. The event
begins at 9 p.m. and goes till
dawn. Music is by the I Beam’s
Michael Garrett and Castro Sta¬
tion’s Odis Campbell. There is to
be a midnight extravanganza and
non-stop dancing. Tickets are $15
in advance and are on sale at
Headlines. $20 is the price at the
door.

There are two “only in San
Francisco” parties at the Gift-
center Pavilion over the weekend.
Friday night is the Official
Kickoff Birthday Bash starting at
8 p.m. The music is by the Harry
James Orchestra with special
guest Tony Bennett singing ‘ ‘that
song.” Tickets are $35 on sale at
BASS. For an additional $20
there is a pre-gala champagne
reception starting at 6. The event
is black tie optional and you get
to cozy up to some celebrities
and meet some of the original
bridge builders.

Saturday night is the class act
dance of the weekend. It is the
Art Deco Society party, “Cap¬
tain’s Gala on the S.S. Stream¬
line,” starting at 9 at the Gift-
center. They will recreate a 1930’s
luxury liner as it might have sail¬
ed through the Golden Gate. The
music is by Peter Mintun and his
orchestra. When asked, organ¬
izers stated there is no problem
with men dancing with men.
Women can also dance with their
favorite person. The cost is $45
and tickets will be on sale at the
door.

Broadway is going to be busy
with private parties and benefits
as people gather to get a good
look at the fireworks. One of the
more important events for the
gay community is the Human
Rights Campaign Fund annual
fundraising party. It starts at
7:30 p.m. at 2960 Broadway on
Sunday night.

The ticket price is $100 per
person. Tickets for this event are
available by calling Linda Black-
more at 464-1998. The money
raised at the function will be used
by the HRCF to lobby for a $1
billion appropriation for AIDS
research, education and related

The official celebration of the
Golden Gate Bridge will begin
Sunday morning. The bridge will
be closed to vehicular traffic at
4:30 a.m. At 6 a.m. there will be
the opening ceremonies and
simultaneous cutting of a red¬
wood log on the north and a
chain on the south side of the
bridge to emulate the 1937 open¬
ing.

The Castro Lions Club will be
selling commemorative bridge-
walk tickets Sunday morning for
$5 for people walking across the

Golden Gate Bridge. All the pro¬
ceeds from the sale will go to the
San Francisco AIDS Emergency
Fund. Those walking across the
bridge who want something
special to keep should look for
Castro Lions. They will be wear¬
ing a special T-shirt.

KGO Radio will carry “live”
most of the activities. It has been
suggested that those venturing
out to the bridge carry a portable
Walkman type radio. People walk¬
ing across the bridge will miss
much of the activity if they don’t

have a radio to hear what is go¬
ing op.

There will be a cavalcade of
cars atr 9:30 a.m. after which the
bridge is scheduled to open for
traffic. All public officials have
strongly suggested that all peo¬
ple going anywhere near the
bridge use public transportation.
Call 673-MUNI for information
in San Francisco.

From 1 p.m. on there will be
activities from Fort Mason, along
Marina Green and in Crissy
Field. There will be a parade of

naval vessels and ships from 11:45
till 2. An airshow is scheduled
from 2 to 4 p.m.

The Golden Gate Bridge Anni¬
versary Celebration show is at
Crissy Field starting at 7. The
fireworks and the lighting of the
bridge towers are set for 9 p.m.

Finally the 1987 AIDS Mem¬
orial Candlelight March is set for
Monday night. May 25, at 8 p.m.
It will start at (Ilastro and Market
Streets and move down Market to
City Hall. •

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BAY AREA REPORTER MAY 21. 1987 PAGE 3

Non-Gays Join Protest
Of Papal Visit

Urge Pope to Not Come to U.S. This Fall

by Charles Linebarger

An American encyclical is being prepared for delivery to the Vatican, protesting the papal
visit to the U.S. this fall. The encyclical letter is being signed by gay and non-gay leaders
in the protest movement on both U.S. coasts. According to the letter, “We cannot allow your
continual attacks on our lifestyles to go unchallenged.” At the same time, the local director
of NOW, the National Organization for Women, said that non-gay ^oups should be given
a larger role in the planned demonstrations against the pope’s visit.

“We intend to vigorously,
forcefully, and nonviolently pro¬
test your presence in San Francis¬
co,” says the letter which origi¬
nated with the Papal Visit Task
Force in San Francisco, “We
know that your staff plans to take
you into the heart of our land —
the Castro District in San Fran¬
cisco — under the pretext that
you are performing a mission of
mercy, by visiting one or more
people with AIDS.”

But, ask the letter-writers, “If
you want to visit someone with
AIDS why don’t you do it in
Rome where you live?

‘ ‘And if you really want to stop
the spread of AIDS, then stop op¬
posing the use of condoms. Your
church’s opposition to education
about the use of condoms is a life-
threatening action and you are re¬
sponsible for the consequences.”

The letter is signed by a num¬
ber of people such as Francis
Kissling, director of Catholics for
Free Choice, a pro-abortion
rights group in New York, and
Kevin Gordon, author of the 1982
Social Justice Task Force report
on homosexuality which was re¬
jected by the San Francisco Arch¬
diocese. Gordon now lives in New
York City.

In San Francisco, the signers

Kevin Gordon

(Photo: Mick Hicks)

include the presidents of all three
gay Democratic clubs, Roberto
Esteves of Alice B. Toklas,
Maurice Belote of Harvey Milk,
and Wayne Moore of Stonewall,
Gay war hero Leonard Matlovich,
supervisorial candidate Pat Nor¬
man, Rev. Jim Sandmire and
other MCC clergy, and Rev.
Robert Cromey are also signers,
as well as is the local director of
NOW, Paula Lichtenburg, and
Priscilla Alexander, co-director of
COYOTE (Call Off Your Old
Tired Ethics), a prostitute rights
organization.

NON-GAYS PROTEST

Paula Lichtenburg told B.A.R.
that she felt NOW and other non¬
gay groups deserved a larger role
in planning the protests for Pope
John Paul II’s American visit.
Said Lichtenburg, “The organiz¬

VATICAN PUTS THE
SCREWS TO DIGNITY

Twelve of the 110 chapters of
Dignity, the gay Catholic organ¬
ization, have been forced to move
.away from Roman Catholic
church property in the last six
months, according to Tom Car-
roll, director of Dignity’s West¬
ern region. Those 12 chapters in¬
clude Dignity’s second largest
chapter. New York City, as well as
Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Atlanta,
and Brooklyn.

Carroll said the action in each
case had been in the last six
months, “since the letter on
homosexuality from the Vatican
last October.” The letter Carroll
referred to called homosexuality
an intrinsic evil.

'We intend to vigorously, forcefully, and
nonviolently test your presence in San
Francisco. We know that your staff plans
to take you into the heart of our land —
the Castro District ... If you want to visit
someone with AIDS, why don't you do it
In Rome where you live?'

-A

ers of these protests should work
to include other non-gay groups.
Our members will be involved in
the protests. Obviously gay peo¬
ple have a lot to protest, but gays
aren’t the only ones having prob¬
lems with the Catholic Church.”

Lichtenburg, who missed the
last board meeting of the Papal
Visit Task Force Committee, said
she planned to attend the next
meeting. She also told B.A.R.
that NOW is working with other
groups in other cities along the
papal tour route to prepare dem¬
onstrations to meet the pope.

The local chapter of NOW has
900 members, said Lichtenburg.

letter to Pope John Paul II

Dignity is planning a mass in
response to the pope’s Candle¬
stick Park mass, according to
Carroll. “The national officers of
Dignity will be here. We’re in¬
viting Dignity members from all
over the nation to come here and
right now we’re expecting people
from Seattle, Southern Califor¬
nia, Chicago and the East
Coast.”

John Wahl, one of the authors
of the American letter to Rome,
told B.A.R. that a major fundrais¬
er for the Papal Visit Task Force
will occur on May 30 at 7:30 p.m.
at 2779 Collingwood. Ginny Foat
of NOW and Kevin Gordon will
speak. The donation is $15. •

'To be young good-looking healthy
famous, comparatively rich, oDd
happy, is surely going against nature.

//

Joe Orton wrote in his diary in
1967. One month later he was
dead at the hands of his lover,
Kenneth Halliwell. Orton’s sta¬
ture as one of the greatest play¬
wrights of the postwar theater
has steadily increased since
then. These diaries, written over
the last eight months of his life,
are one of the most candid and

diaries that figure“in the film Prick Up Your Ears.

Harpere)Eow

unfettered accounts ever written
about a life lived on the fringe.

“The diaries... put us on the
most intimate terms with a bois¬
terous talent at its zenith.’’

—Edmund White

The outrageous X-rated diaries
of “the Oscar Wilde of the sixties.’

—Vanity Fair

FBI Looking Into
Theft At KQED

by Charles Linebarger

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the
disappearance of hundreds of thousands of dollars from
KQED. The theft was reported to the FBI by Bell Savings and
Loan. Federal law requires savings and loan associations to
report to the FBI when there are major financial losses caused
by fraud. According to an account in the San Francisco
Chronicle May 18, it appears to be “an inside job all the way.”

“Tony Tiano issued a very cir¬
cumspect memo to the staff last
week,” KQED-TV director Nat
Katzman told Bay Area Reporter,
“that evidently a theft had oc¬
curred and someone might have
been implicated. I think you can
deduce from that that it wasn’t
someone in a management posi¬
tion.

“The investigation is continu¬
ing,” added Katzman, who noted
that the staff had been caution¬
ed about discussing the incident.
No one was saying how much had
been stolen from the public
broadcasting station which has
been boycotted by the lesbian
and gay community for the last
year. But according to the Chron¬
icle, it is “major money (low six
figures).”

Lieut. Don Carlson of the San
Francisco Police Department
said, “There is another case that
somehow peripherally became
involved in this case. We had
another victim. Specialty Brands,
that contacted us, and the sus¬
pect is apparently the same.”

According to Carlson, $56,000
was stolen from Specialty Brands,

a San Francisco-based company.
“This involved forgery of multi¬
ple accounts,” said Carlson.

In the KQED case, he said,
“The investigation arose out of
the fact that a savings and loan
(Bell Savings) was required to let
the FBI know that there had been
a substantial loss. This time
again it involved forgery on
multiple and similarly named ac¬
counts.’ ’

When the FBI became in¬
volved in the investigation the
SFPD turned the entire case over
to the federal agency. Neither the
FBI nor Tiano, president and
general manager of KQED, re¬
turned B.A.R.’s calls.

An anonymous KQED em¬
ployee did talk to B.A.R. however.
“I don’t know what’s going on,”
said the obviously nonplussed
employee. “Nothing’s gone right
around here in months.”

Meanwhile, the leaders of the
gay boycott against KQED are ex¬
pected to meet in the next few
weeks to decide on future
strategy against the station. •

BAY AREA REPORTER MAY 21, 1987 PAGE 4

(Photo: S. McLennan)

EMPOWERING

Candlelight Memorial March
To Circle the Globe

by Charles Linebarger

On Memorial Day, Monday, May 25, thousands of San Fran¬
ciscans will participate in the fourth annual Candlelight
March to honor people with AIDS and ARC and those who
have died of the disease. The San Francisco march is the oldest
Memorial Day demonstration for AIDS in the country, but it
is no longer the only one. This year almost 100 similar march¬
es or rallies are planned in cities around the world.

“This is a memorial service
and an emotional event more
than anything else,” explained
Glen Coltharp, a person with
AIDS who is on the Candlelight
Memorial March Committee.
Coltharp walked in the first
Memorial Day march in 1984.

Paul Boneberg, national di¬
rector of Mobilization Against
AIDS, the group which is co¬
sponsoring the event, told Bay
Area Reporter that he expects be¬
tween 5-10,000 people to march
in this year’s demonstration.

Boneberg said that the march
would begin at Castro and Mar¬
ket at 8 p.m. Participants should
bring their own candles though
a few will be made available at the
site. Transportation for people ill
with AIDS or ARC will be made
available on motorized cable
cars.

Three people with AIDS are

slated to speak at the gathering
when the marchers reach the
Polk Street steps of City Hall.
The three are Dr. Tom Waddell,
founder of the Gay Games, Dan
Turner, a playwright who is one
of the longest surviving people
with AIDS in the United States,
and Joe Correa.

In Europe, marches are sched¬
uled to take place in Scandinavia
and the United Kingdom though
the first in Eastern Europe will
take place in Yugoslavia, in the
city of Ljubljana.

“It’s to honor the dead and to
support the living,” said Col¬
tharp. “It’s a memorial march as
opposed to a political event. It’s
an opportunity to publicly me¬
morialize people with AIDS who
have passed on and people who
are still living with AIDS. It’s a
candlelight march down Market
Street ending at City Hall.” •

Ouster of Health Director
Demanded in Marin County

Accused of Bias, Lack of Leadership on AIDS;

Grand Jury Investigation Called For

by Ray O'Loughlin

The quiet of suburban Marin County has been disturbed recently by calls for the resigna¬
tion of health director Dr. Theodore Hiatt amid accusations that the county has refused to
adequately address the growing AIDS epidemic. The Lesbian/Gay Caucus of the Marin
Democratic Club has filed a formal complaint with that county’s Human Rights Commis¬
sion alleging that Hiatt is discriminating against people with AIDS. They have also requested
a grand jury investigation into county AIDS programs.

“We feel that the response of
the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) has been
negligently slow and inade¬
quate,” says an April 20 letter
from caucus chair Alex Diefen-
bach to the Marin County Grand
Jury.

In addition to accusing Hiatt
of a “lack of effective leader¬
ship” on AIDS, the gay group
states that Hiatt submitted a
report to the Marin County
Board of Supervisors that is
“seriously flawed.” They also ac¬
cused Hiatt of making insensitive
and homophobic remarks in pub¬
lic regarding the AIDS epidemic.

According to Diefenbach,
“Marin County is essentially ig¬
noring the epidemic with a gross
lack of leadership by health
department officials.” He said
that the county was not even
keeping complete and up-to-date
statistics on AIDS cases in Ma¬
rin. He blamed that in part on the
lack of a comprehensive AIDS
response plan.

Marin County officially re¬
ports a total of 74 AIDS cases
from 1983 through 1987. Unoffi¬
cially, those involved in AIDS
support services in Marin say
there are at least twice that num¬
ber.

The Marin AIDS Support Net¬
work (MASN), according to direc¬
tor Mary Redick, currently has
156 clients, 82 percent of whom,
she said, were diagnosed and are
treated in San Francisco.

Diefenbach told Bay Area Re¬
porter that in the first quarter
alone of 1987, 19 newly diag¬
nosed people applied for services
from MASN. During that quar¬

ter, the Marin health department
registered no new cases.

He said that according to state
figures, Marin has the second
highest per capita incidence of
AIDS in California. “We have a
low population,” he said (approx¬
imately 250,000), “but a relative¬
ly high percentage of cases.”

The lack of accurate statistics
became apparent, said Diefen¬
bach, in a recent report submit¬
ted by Hiatt to the Marin County
Board of Supervisors. “There are
barely any statistics at all in the
report,” he said. “It was a very
badly done report.”

“There is a paucity of statis¬
tics presented and those cited are
highly disputable,” he added.
“They are understated even
when using percentages found in
the report as the basis for deter¬
mining the extent of HIV infec¬
tion. There is no indication in the
report regarding the incidence of
AIDS by risk groups, information
which is vital to determining
educational and service needs.”

Instead of the data necessary
for long range planning to meet
the health crisis of the futurre,
Diefenbach said that Hiatt’s re¬
port to the board was filled with
moralistic, homophobic rhetoric.

Hiatt’s report, dated Mar. 18,
makes the claim that “For more
than three millennia the world’s
major religions have promoted
‘purity’ and faithful monogamy
after ritual marriage, with the
result that the human race was
not exterminated by gonorrhea
or syphilis, as it would have been
had those diseases appeared in
an uncivilized, sexually unre¬
strained population. The same is

now true with respect to AIDS.”

Hiatt’s report makes no men¬
tion of safe or unsafe sexual prac¬
tices, but dwells on morality and
advises a “just say no” approach
until people learn “the real na¬
ture of love.” All else is called
“sex-related compulsive behav¬
iors.”

Recently, Hiatt was also quot¬
ed on television news saying he
presumed that Marin people with
AIDS had enough money to pay
for their medical needs.

The Lesbian/Gay Caucus
claims that the county’s pub¬
lished list of AIDS services may
“give the impression that HHS is
doing a tremendous amount of
AIDS-related work.” But most of
that, they say, is performed by
non-profit, volunteer agencies or
are funded by the state directly,
such as the HIV testing program.

Part of the problem, according
to Redick, is that many Marin
residents seek medical treatment
in San Francisco either by choice
or because they work in the city.

Redick did not agree that
Marin County was completely
failing to provide services to
those with AIDS. “Services, such
as food, are provided by the
Marin Food Bank,” she said.
“AIDS services are integrated
within existing general services.”

Still, there are problems, she
said. “The level of denial is in¬
credible all the way around,” said
Redick, referring to what she
called the “Liberace problem —
lots of people with AIDS who
don’t have AIDS.”

And “for a person who is poor
in Marin, services are nothing,
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School Daze

W hy is it that when it comes to gay and lesbian issues, the San
Francisco Board of Education is always out on recess? Delays,
excuses, buck-passing, but no action on requests made lat year
to get the city’s public school system involved in solving a significant
problem for this society — the mistreatment of lesbian and gay citizens.

Our commimity is involved with and affected by what goes on in public
school classrooms in a number of ways. We are students and teachers
in the schools, parents of students, taxpayers supporting the schools even
if we have no children in them. And too frequently, we have been the
victims of the failure of our schools to instiU in their pupils a respect
for our rights. Our interest in schools goes far beyond reading and math
test scores.

We expect and are entitled to see our schools promote tolerance and
understanding in those who will be deciding America’s future. They
would be better served if the schools now dealt openly with homophobia.

But the attitude of the present school board on our concerns is the
old “let me get back to you on that” kiss off. A year later, we’re still
on hold.

It seems that no bureaucracy spews forth the red tape like the Board
of Education. Books get ordered and purchased and then sit and col¬
lect dust rather than be put into the hands of those who need them.
Resolutions get proposed but radio station KALW still broadcasts anti¬
gay MonitoRadio, a wing of the Christian Science Church. And com¬
mittees meet and then don’t meet, but nothing happens anyway.

It’s a sorry mess.

T he school district’s Family Life Committee, which oversees cur¬
riculum development for family life classes that would deal with
discussison of lesbian and gay lifestyles, is moving as slowly as
it possibly could. Copies of the book Demystifying Homosexuality sit
unused at many schools. Most schools in the district also do not yet have
a staff member designated to handle gay issues as was promised last year.

While the district has managed to produce some education on AIDS
for its students and staff, it has yet to attack the problem of violence
against gay people — and others — brought on by AIDS fear and homo¬
phobia. It’s true that the schools can’t control the behavior of their pupils
after school hours — they can barely control them during school hours
— there is still a measure of responsibility for that behavior. The kids
on the street, after all, only reflect the values they learn, or don’t learn,
in class.

We’re asking our schools to challenge their students’ preconceptions
about the world. Isn’t that their job? Isn’t that the nature of education?

All the excuses churned up for delaying action on our legitimate
demands are just cover-ups. They’re cover-ups for lack of leadership, lack
of courage, and just plain bad faith in conducting their negotiations with
the lesbian and gay community. Action — not meaningless paper resolu¬
tions — is long overdue at the San Francisco Board of Education.

Will the present board members be so slow to move when election
time comes around? They haven’t been in the past. Maybe we should
respond by putting them on hold when they come to ask for our votes.
Let me get back to you on that, Myra. O’Loughlin

Success

W ith the success of this year’s AIDS Bike-A-Thon, our community
has demonstrated once again our commitment to maintaining
the high quality of services to people with AIDS for which this
city has become world renowned. Over 1,000 bicyclists turned out May
9 to raise $340,0(X) for 11 agencies throughout the Bay Area. The AIDS
Bike-A-Thon has now become an established event, growing from 65
riders in 1985 to 650 riders last year and topping 1,000 this year. In terms
of money raised, the Bike-A-Thon still ranks highest, being the largest
fundraiser for AIDS in Northern California.

What really makes the Bike-A-Thon exceptional, however, is not the
amount of money raised or the number of riders fielded. The
distinguishing factor with this event is that its success relies entirely on
the grassroots response of this community. Not ony are all the organizers
volunteers — there was no paid staff — the entire task of raising pledges
and collecting funds — the heart of the Bike-A-Thon — rests on the will¬
ingness of the individual riders to do the work. The credit for the suc¬
cess goes to the thousands who rode and pledged money.

The success of the Bike-A-Thon goes beyond even its fundraising,
though. It was a challenge to cyclists and it was a good time too. It was
truly a communal event and shows what a mobilized community can do.

Other fundraisers have borrowed and adapted the idea to their spe¬
cialty. During June, gay and lesbian runners are challenging themselves
in a month-long effort to raise money for the fight against AIDS. They’ve
expanded the annual Gay Run into a pledge drive similar to the
Bike-A-Thon.

Looking at these efforts, we are reminded that we are our own best
resource in the battle against AIDS. Bob Ross

Should Investigational Drugs Be Released Early?

FOR

T he early release of AZT is good news to many for several reasons:

1) The natural history of AIDS presenting as opportunistic in¬
fection is abundantly clear; without antiviral treatment, medical
survival is less than one year, and over 90 percent are dead within two
years. The necessity for a placebo in this group of patients is therefore
unclear.

2) The natural history of “severe ARC,” i.& less than 200 helper cells,
is almost as bleak; over 50 percent will have AIDS defined opportunistic
infection within one year.

3) The natural history of seropositivity is less clear but recent data
from the San Francisco hepatitis-B cohort study reveals a sharp increase
in percentage of AIDS cases occurring between five and nine years of
seropositivity with 36 percent developing AIDS at 88 months of
seropositivity.

4) Preliminary data on Phase I and II AZT recipients indicate an
increase in longevity and decrease in viral and P24 antigen recovery
in those on AZT versus those on placebo.

Given the information about the natural history of HIV infection
and preliminary data on AZT, it is easy to understand why many HIV
infected persons are willing to pay exorbitant prices to take a drug which
is incompletely tested and therefore has known toxicity, not to men¬
tion unknown long range toxicity.

Fortunately, it is possible to monitor the known toxic effects and
withdraw the drug if necessary.

Lastly, there is psychological benefit for the patient and his doctor
to participate in making a choice about therapy with knowledge that
there may be an effective drug available to some, but not to be able
to get the drug because of requirements of a protocol is an overwhelm¬
ingly frustrating situation. James Campbell, MD

AGAINST

T he proposed rule for legalizing sale of investigational drugs for
AIDS and ARC leaves one with the uneasy feeling of returning
to the pre-1963 days of controlled drug testing and the attendant
toxicity problems which affected many in the country.

There is little argument regarding early release of AZT, since the
Phase II trials were quite convincing in regard to mortality although
the duration of observation was short. Similar trials in patients with
ARC have not been reported. The ribavirin studies were not convinc¬
ing, although this drug seems to have been one of the inciting elements
in the proposed relaxation of regulations, and in fact FDA has finally
determined that the early data do not warrant wide-scale testing. The
other candidate drugs are even more problematical.

The frustration and anxiety of both physicians and patients in this
present no-cure situation are understandable, but we should look at
the alternatives. The proposed rule would allow drugs to be sold and
used with little regard for protocol before even Phase II, the time for
establishing the optimal dosage and dosage schedule, has been com¬
pleted. These drugs will not have been shown to be effective, and with¬
out a set protocol, the physician/patient will be relatively free to use
the drug in whatever manner they decide, whether it makes sense or
not. I believe it will be very difficult for physicians to embark on a treat¬
ment regimen that can hope to benefit most patients, to say nothing
about avoiding unacceptable toxicity, without much more information
than will be available.

The resulting experience will end in a hodge-podge of testimonial
information that will only poorly advance the state of the art and even
delay eventual understanding for usage of the drug, all to assuage the
hysteria of patients and doctors. It will not be possible to do placebo-
controlled trials if the drug is freely available to those who can afford
to buy it.

What about those who can’t? The cost of drugs will not be reviewed
by FDA before going on sale, but the agency retains the option of
withdrawing the privilege if the price is eventually considered
outrageous.

I believe the end result of this revolutionary change in drug research
will be the delay of solid data to permit the educated use of effective
drugs, and causing significant toxicity along the way, perhaps with the
needless sacrifice of patients, all to relieve our anxiety. The Hippocratic
oath has its practical side, too — “above all, we shall do no harm.”

I* -i

Reprinted with permission ofTheBAPHRON, Bay Area Physiciaks for Human Rights
Official Newsletter.

BAY AREA REPORTER MAY 21, 1987 PAGE 6

Harriet'^Bashing* *

★ Wayne Friday seems to enjoy Harriet “bashing”
these days. He overlooks the fact that I am a defense
lawyer and that, as such I am supposed to represent
the defendant. I am not supposed to temper the
defense with sympathy for the alleged victims. In my
19 years as a public defender, I have represented
many gays as vigorously as I have non-gays.

I have never used the homosexual panic defense
in any case at any time. In the Kolosky case, men¬
tioned by Mr. Friday, self-defense was the issue and
no psychological defense was used.

Let it be very clear at this time that I am defense
oriented and that I have fought for the constitutional
rights of the underprivileged. Nothing rankles me
so much as prejudice and bigotry against anyone and
I am dedicated to eradicating the same.

My background, as described by Mr. Friday,
establishes me as the qualified candidate for U.S.
Representative of the 5th District. The 25 years dur¬
ing which I have lived, worked and raised a child in
the District, give me a great deal in common with
its residents.

My opponent participated very effectively in
“conning” the public into accepting the unfair
reapportionment of the District by the Burton
Machine. That devious and insidious gerrymander¬
ing divided the gay community and was the cause
of Harry Britt’s defeat.

My opponent reportedly has spent almost a million
dollars in an attempt to buy the 5th District seat! She
is the “anointed” one of the Burton Machine. She
says she is proud to be a part of this “creative and
progressive” machine. The “machine” has created
unsuccessful national programs. The “machine” has
progressively cost the taxpayers enormous sums of
money. The “machine” has created dependency in
our community and the increase in crime related to
it.

If elected, I will represent all the people, not just
a politically identifiable faction of the constituency.
On June 2, the voters have the opportunity to be pro¬
gressive and to send a qualified candidate without
ties and obligations to Washington. It is time for a
change and Harriet Ross is a good choice for a
change.

Harriet Ross
San Francisco

Liizst O’Manias

★ While I understand the amusement re Ken
Russell’s uncut boyfriend, how about doing some¬
thing for those who put at the top of their list
o’manias altered states?

Mike Varady
Los Angeles

Times Have Changed

★ To Ken Dickmann’s comments—Tolerance with
a Dollar Sign:

My, my, how times have changed. I remember
when you used to be one of those same “smug” peo¬
ple that you refer to in your lengthy put-down.
Remember Hon, we used to hit the old “Capri”
together. You never had too much time for those from
“down there.”

After 10 years of living in La-La Land (as you used
to call it) and becoming involved in dealing with
“Starlets,” if there is an attitude, you have it!! Just
remember, S.F. was good to you, and you as many
others felt the same way about this city. For some¬
one who cannot be bothered, why did it take almost
a full column to inform us???

Vern Stewart
San Francisco

The 24 *Divisadero Ness

★ This letter was sent to Mr. William Stead, Gen¬
eral Manager, Muni Metro, 949 Presidio Ave., San
Francisco, CA 94114:

Dear Mr. Stead,

As you must be aware, the 24-Divisadero bus, as
it traverses the Castro and 18th Streets area, has a
long record of passengers shouting defamatory
remarks out the windows, hurling objects and spit¬
ting out the windows and even deboarding the bus
at 18th Street to commit violence against pedestrians
they perceive to be gay, then reboarding the bus at
17th and Castro Streets.

This pattern has been successful for so long that,
evidently, the perpetrators of these dastardly acts
have a well-founded confidence that the operator of
the bus on which they are passengers will do nothing
to deter their evil efforts, and even welcome them
back aboard the vehicle in order to expedite their
escape from the area.

Considering the past shameful history of violence

against the public emanating from the 24-Divisadero
line, it seems inconceivable that the uniform ac¬
counts of a myraid of pedestrian witnesses to the in¬
cident reported in the May 7 edition of the Bay Area
Reporter could be questioned even by Muni author¬
ities. Also, considering that driver Levon Bell’s
account differs so greatly from that of the many
pedestrian witnesses, it may be appropriate to ask:
What preventative measures did driver Bell take
when the perpetrators deboarded the bus at 18th?
Why didn’t he use the radio equipment that (I
presume) was aboard the bus to contact the S.F.
Police? What steps did he take to disuade the
perpetrators from reboarding the bus at 17th and
Castro? (I presume they paid new fares upon re¬
boarding.) Finally, a person who uses the language,
allegedly, disgorged by driver Bell certainly fits no
one’s description of a Christian minister.

This disgraceful incident merits a full investiga¬
tion followed by public disclosure of the findings;
measures taken to ensure future public safety regard¬
ing the 24-Divisadero bus; and the name of the per-
son(s) designated to be responsible for the admin¬
istration of the 24-Divisadero public safety program.

Jerry R. DeYoung
San Francisco

Stewart McKinney

★ Stewart McKinney’s death brings the tragedy of
AIDS home to the Congress, and it is hitting us hard.

Stew McKinney was a kind and beautiful person
—a very independent thinker whose compassion for
people was always evident.

Even as he was dying of AIDS, Stew participated
with members of Congress in a vigil with the home¬
less of Washington, D.C. to call attention to their
plight. For five years I have been speaking to my col¬
leagues about the AIDS issue, trying to convince
them of the necessity to commit substantial federal
funds to the AIDS research, education and preven¬
tion effort. Now they are painfully aware of the reason
why this is so important—because AIDS can trans¬
late into premature deaths of productive and loving
people.

Stew McKinney will be sorely missed. I know it was
his wish that we do more to fight AIDS, and I hope
we will use his death as a motivation to declare war
on this terrible disease.

Barbara Boxer
Member of Congress
Washington, D.C.

Let’s Be Impartial

★ I am prompted to write because of the recent
reporting of the Congressional race and the Milk
Club endorsement by both the B.A.R. and Coming
Up! Although I generally agree with your positions,
I am disturbed by the angry tone and loose jour¬
nalistic standards evident in your news coverage of
these events. One never has to search between the
lines to discover subtle inferences. They scream at
the reader from the news columns. The opinions of
the editors pervades the news reports. The B.A.R. is
guilty of the same biased reporting and creeping
editorialization for which it rightly criticizes the
Chronicle. In so doing, B.A.R. does a disservice to
the community and to its own integrity.

Both newspapers should recall that their primary
responsibility is to inform the gay community on
issues of paramount concern rather than to promote
their publisher’s political agenda. They can best
accomplish that goal by impartially reporting the
news events and restricting opinion to the editorial
pages and designated columnists.

Larry Cohen
San Francisco

Just Td liet You Know . . .

★ This letter was sent to Robert H. Guggenheim,

Vice President, Corporate Development, Merrill
Lynch Realty, 1 Market Plaza, 1515 Spear Tower, San
Francisco, CA 94105:

Dear Mr. Guggenheim:

In response to your solicitation of funds for the
U.S. Olympic Committee which I received today, I
ask that you consider the wisdom of supporting a
viciously homophobic organization that has harassed
the Gay Olympics through the federal courts these
past five years.

This has not been a civilized dispute about the
Committee’s right to expropriate for its exclusive use
a part of our language, but an ill-tempted personal
attack on a former Olympic champion who happens
to be gay.

I think it is important that San Francisco proper¬
ty owners know that Merrill Lynch Realty is sup¬
porting the U.S. Olympic Committee.

Douglas Montgomery
San Francisco

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It’s My Choice

★ This letter was sent to Mr. Abe Mellinkoff, San
Francisco Chronicle, 5th and Mission Sts., San Fran¬
cisco, CA 94103:

Mr. Mellinkoff:

I read a couple of days ago in your column that
you think Harry Britt’s sexual orientation wasn’t an
issue at the polls just because nobody talked about
it. You believe that the fact he was gay had nothing
to do with his defeat. His economic policies were the
real culprits of his demise.

What hogwash. Harry Britt isn’t any more or less
liberal than three-quarters of the politicians in this
town. Do you really believe that just because nobody
talks about an issue constitutes proof that one does
not exist? Do you really believe there was absolutely
no underlying fear by non-gay voters that Harry Britt
couldn’t represent San Francisco because of his sex¬
uality? The truth is Harry Britt would do an excellent
job representing the city. He knows quite well what
his detractors say about him and he recognizes his
primary job is to prove them wrong.

Nancy Pelosi did nothing to dispel these fears. She
used them for her own political gain which is com-
Vnon in politics, but that doesn’t mean the gay com¬
munity should sit on the sidelines and not call the
foul.

The worst part of all this is you’re trying to glad
hand San Francisco, pretending nothing happened
and expecting us to believe that everything was fair
and equal. The only thing I can think to do to
demonstrate my displeasure is to write in Harry
Britt’s name on June 2. Thirty-nine thousand votes
and $650,000 later, I still feel the same way about Ms.
Pelosi as I did before the primary election. The al¬
ternative candidates are incredibly unqualified. After
much reflection I’ve discovered why I won’t vote for
Nancy Pelosi. I don’t want to.

George Collins
San Francisco

Political Idiocy

★ I just relish the opportunity to be the first voice
to deflate the political bubble of unity created by the
Britt congressional campaign.

During the last ten years that area of the city
known as the Castro-Height has done much to
change the character of San Francisco politics. Ten
years ago when we got district elections on the ballot
and won, we had no direct political representatives
on the Board of Supervisors.

Now a bunch of starry-eyed fresh off the trail hon¬
chos think they should stir up these matters again.
Today, however, things are a lot different than ten
years ago. Today, those of us who have worked so hard
for ten years have four supervisors who live in our
neighborhood and several others who live close by.

Now, Mr. Britt and his friends wish to give away
that work by supporting district elections once again.
I do not know what kind of political reality these peo¬
ple represent, but I would say if the Richmond and
the Sunset want political clout, let them work for it—
don’t just give it to them.

Steve Perkins
San Francisco

Ratzinger: The Real Villain

★ Two recent papal pronouncements about homo¬
sexuality have caused bitterness and rage within the
gay community. Since then, there has been opposi¬
tion to Pope John Paul IPs planned trip to San Fran¬
cisco in September. Some people have wanted ex¬
treme and even violent demonstrations against him.

One point should be understood about this issue.
The anti-gay rhetoric was authored by Cardinal
Joseph Ratzinger of the Congregation of Sacred Doc¬
trine. The rhetoric is part of an ongoing battle by
Ratzinger against any modernization of the Roman
Catholic Church. He has been doing this kind of
thing since the Second Vatican Council.

He has been particularly hasty with his actions re¬
cently because he will soon retire. He is virtually the
Church’s last reactionary spokesman. He has been
doing his best to perpetuate his medieval version of
Christianity.

One of his targets has been the women’s move¬
ment. He has actively destroyed documentation and
petitions for the ordination of women into the
priesthood, forbidden its discussions and silenced
Mother Teresa when she spoke out in favor of the sub¬
ject. His statements about women ooze with personal
hatred.

The list of offenses is long. Ratzinger has deposed
bishops, defrocked critics, and torpedoed plans for
intercommunion with Orthodox and Anglicans. He
has even ordered books to be destroyed.

When he states that homosexuality is the cause of
AIDS, he shows he is psychotic and ignorant. He is
totally oblivious to the existence of female homosex¬
uality and its noncontribution to the plague.

Pope John Paul II has done nothing to stop Rat¬
zinger and is, thus, a moral coward. One reason may
be that conservative elements within the Church (Rat-
zinger’s allies) give heavy financial support at a time
when the Church membership is decreasing.

Anyone who knows anything about Pope Pius XII
and the Holocaust knows that John Paul II’s papal
action is nothing new.

Maybe this trip is an attempt by the pope to make
amends. Regardless of the motives, the pope is clearly
wrong. When he comes here in September, demon¬
strations of outrage are more than appropriate.

However, any who would consider or counsel acts
of violence should be aware of the consequences
against gays in general, people with AIDS, and those
in the Church who, upon the deaths of these old
fogies, await a brighter day.

Roy Ledbetter
San Francisco

Condom Advertising

★ So what’s wong with condom ads?

Is it:

• The inability to learn from obvious exper¬
ience? or,

• Some Victorian value? or,

• Denial of the creative abilities? or,

• Decreased pleasure?

Final thought: If an individual calls him/her-self
learned—should not s/he act like it?

C. David Nelson
San Francisco

Sour Grapes

★ I feel the Covered Wagon “Yosemite Samm’s”
and its staff has once again been short-changed. We
have always tried to help our community in any way
possible. We don’t do this for publicity, but because
we want to help. *

But when our staff and our friends donate as much
time and energy as they did this past week without
as much as a mention, it gets to be a little too much.

We participated in the IGF Progressive Dinner on
May 8 for 75 people. The next day, we prepared salads
for 500 people involved with the Bike-A-Thon. The
next day, we prepared a barbecue fundraiser for the
Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day Parade. I feel these
things are worth mentioning.

This is not the first time this has happened and
I am sure it won’t be the last time. We have every in¬
tention of doing whatever we can to be of service to
our community, with or without any awareness by
your columnists.

I personally wish to thank everyone who helped
to make these fundraisers successful.

Grant Brady
San Francisco

*Dear Abby’

★ This letter was sent to Dear Abby, P.O. Box 447,

Mount Morris, IL 61054:

Dear Abby:

Re: San Francisco Chronicle column dated May
6, 1987.

Have you been reading too many letters from
Fundamentalists attacking your up-until-now
enlightened attitude towards gays? Are you backing
off from your once courageous stand against irra¬
tional bigotry?

The gay man whose lover died of AIDS (after ten
years of devoting their lives to each other) was prob¬
ably devastated by that death. It is at times like these
that we gay people are shocked into realizing how
ludicrous and short-sighted it is to have played
charades with our families for so long. Right when
we need their love and support the most, we are trap¬
ped into our own painful solitude.

Opening up to our families is often the only way
to get the love and comfort that we so desperately
need at these most painful times. But we gays are ex¬
pected to maintain our facade at these times, no mat¬
ter how painful and unbearable, because influential
people like you tell our families that we gays are
“insentitive and inconsiderate” for opening up to
family members about the recent death of our loved
ones.

Apparently, you think that the suffering and grief
of a gay man who has recently lost his most loved one
is of secondary importance to having homophobic
relatives feel more comfortable (with their bigotry?)
at a notoriously superficial family gathering.

You are wrong, Abby, and it looks a lot like you may
be selling us out.

Stuart A. McDonald
San Francisco

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BAY AREA REPORTER MAY 21, 1987 PAGE 8

A New Rodeo Organization

★ A new Nevada corporation has been organized.
It is called the Silver State Gay Rodeo Association
(SSGRA). As soon as details are finalized with the
state of Nevada, we will affiliate with the Internation¬
al Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA).

We are a non-profit organization. We will perform
charitable duties through fundraising events, rodeo
performances, etc., for the gay community and for
everyone in general.

The SSGRA plans to hold its first rodeo in
September, 1988, in Reno. Already, much interest has
been shown by IGRA to have the 1988 International
Gay Rodeo finals in Reno.

The SSGRA invites anyone to join our organiza¬
tion. We also invite all gay men and women every¬
where to join us in Reno for the 1988 Silver State Gay
Rodeo, where people can collectively communicate
and have fun in a wonderful country-western at¬
mosphere.

Terry Moore
Corresponding Secretary
Silver State Gay Rodeo Assn.
P.O. Box 3305, Reno, NV

Congrats To Stonewall

• On behalf of Bi-POL, San Francisco’s Indepen¬
dent Movement for Bisexual Rights, we would like
to congratulate the Stonewall Gay Democratic Club
for the leadership and integrity it showed by pass¬
ing the following resolutions unanimously at its May
4 meeting:

• Stonewall recognizes the important contributions
of bisexual people to our movement since its incep¬
tion and pledges itself to oppose and to struggle
against bi-phobia in all of its forms.

• Stonewall will promote the use of language stating
“lesbian, gay and bisexual’’ when describing itself
to the community and in its promotion of human
rights.

• Stonewall will establish educational programs to
inform its own members and others in the commu¬
nity about bisexuality and the devastating effects of
biphobia and homophobia.

• Stonewall will work toward the goal of a united and
strong lesbian, gay and bisexual community.

Let us hope the other lesbian/gay democratic clubs
will move swiftly to follow the important and highly
conscious lead exhibited by Stonewall in forging a
more united, stronger and politically viable commu¬
nity by ending the second class citizenship to which
bisexual people have often been relegated.

Alan M. Rockway, Ph.D.
Maggi Rubenstein, Ph.D.

San Francisco

Taxi For Hoodlums

★ The 24-Divisadero bus has become a taxi for
hoodlums.

Even though there is enough clout to almost elect
a gay congressman, there is not enough at City Hall
to change the route and solve the problem.

When was the last time you saw a gay Muni
operator — or any in even a small number? Every¬
one else gets hired. This should be a matter for the
mayoral campaigns.

Irwin Schonberger
San Francisco

Listen To What She Says

★ Brian Mavrogeorge and other leaders of CRIR
take unfair “pot-shots’’ at certain employees of the
District Attorney when they imply that said indi¬
viduals oppose the candidacy of Republican Con¬
gressional candidate Harriet Ross because of her
public criticism of me — and their status as District
Attorney employees.

The CRIR leaders conveniently fail to mention the
issues on which Ross has publicly exchanged shots
with me. Some of them are:

• Adoption of legislation requiring BART contrac¬
tors to agree not to discriminate against this com¬
munity: Ross stated in a Feb. 2 letter to the editor
of the Examiner that said proposal was “off the wall.
Her letter to the editor then proceeded to ask the
ridiculous (!) question “Is there any proof that any
of the contractors with which BART has dealt dis¬
criminate against gays?’’

• Support for divestment of public funds from
South Africa: Ross has repeatedly condemned my
long-time support for legislation to aid the struggle
of the black, Asian, and colored people of South
Africa against apartheid.

I should note that Ross’s political positions have
not been confined to the realm of philosophy. While
Ross may fool the naive leadership of CRIR by
apologizing for her political positions in the past.

let her statements speak for her. I have heard her use
the word “faggot” without any sense of shame. I am
sure that most of the CRIR leaders now endorsing
her have heard similar expressions from the candi¬
date they would fool us into sending to Congress.

A candidate who believes that nondiscrimination
legislation is “off the wall,” who refuses to support
the struggle against apartheid, and who thinks that
the members of this community are “faggots” — all
of which Ms. Ross has done — surely is not worthy
to replace Phil and Sala Burton in Congress.

Arlo Hale Smith
BART Director
San Francisco

Thanks, Bike>A>Thoners

★ I think it’s time the entire Bay Area population,
gay and straight alike, gave a thunderous round of
applause to the unassuming, dedicated and hard¬
working Bike-A-Thon crew.

Without a slate of big-name celebrities and no
budget to speak of, the Bike-A-Thon raised more
money for AIDS service organizations than any
single event thus far.

It’s the service organizations which normally get
the kudos for a job well done. I would like to point
out that none of us could do it without people like
Tom Walther and other volunteers providing the
money. I know that my own organization. Open Hand,
would have had a difficult time continuing without
the funds raised for us by this year’s Bike-A-Thon.

Thank you for a beautifully thought-out and slickly
run operation. It looked so easy, and I know that it
was an enormous effort that took many months of
planning.

Thank you from all of us.

Ruth Brinker
Director, Open Hand
San Francisco

Racial Eqaality

★ There are not many things that I agree on with
Mayor Dianne Feinstein, but I support her decision
to appoint Mr. Rod McLeod, a Filipino, to the vacancy
on the Board of Education.

In your last issue, the Mayor was attacked for not
appointing a gay or lesbian to the vacancy. I do not
concur with those individuals who shout that this is
a setback for the gay/lesbian community of San
Francisco.

What the Mayor did in appointing Rod McLeod
was to insure that the Filipino community continued
to be represented on the Board of Education. Mr.
McLeod was appointed to the “Filipino” seat on the
Board. He replaced another Filipino.

Our community had no claim to that vacancy. True,
Greg Day received 40,000 votes in the last school
board race. So what? Our community has many
elected and appointed officials. The Filipino com¬
munity only had Richard Cerbatos on the Board of
Education. It is only right that a Filipino replace Mr.
Cerbatos.

Rod McLeod is a trial lawyer with Brobeck,
Phelger & Harrison and the vice chair of the Mayor’s
Citizens Committee on Community Development.
He is the president of the Filipino Bar Association
and was president last year of the Filipino American
Democratic Club. It should also be noted, that Mr.
McLeod’s mother was the first Filipina-American ap¬
pointed a public school principal in San Francisco.

If our community really believes in racial equali¬
ty, it should support the Mayor when she practices
politics of inclusion, not exclusion.

George M. Raya
San Francisco

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Cecil Williams Gets Parsons Award

Virginia Ramey Mallenkott,
Ph.D., co-author oils the Homo¬
sexual My neighbor? Another
Christian View, noted feminist,
and professor at William Pater¬
son College of New Jersey will
speak at the Third Annual Bis¬
hop Parsons Award Dinner ben¬
efiting the Parsonage, a ministry
of the Episcopal Church in the
midst of the gay and lesbian com¬
munity.

The Bishop Parsons Award for
Social Justice will be presented
this year to Minister of Libera¬
tion at Glide Memorial Church,
Rev. Cecil Williams. Rejoins the
company of Bishop William

Swing and Marion Cedarblade in
receiving this honor.

The Bob Smith Award for
Community Service will go to
Irene Herrold, a parson and
member of saint Aidan’s Parish
in the city, who has been in¬
defatigable in her work at The
Parsonage, at the AIDS
Hope/Help Center, in developing
AIDS education programs and in
other community work.

The Glide Ensemble, a well-
known choir at Glide Memorial
Church, will provide the eve¬
ning’s entertainment. Tickets are
$500 for Saints, $250 for Angeles,
$100 for Patrons, $75 for Donors

and $60 for Sponsors. A “no
frills” dinner ticket is $40. Tables
for 10 people are available. Funds
raised go toward paying the sec¬
retary’s salary.

The catered sit-down dinner
takes place in Gresham Hall at
Grace Cathedral on Friday, May
29. No-host bar commences at
6 p.m. Dinner starts at 7 p.m. and
the program starts when dessert
is served. Deadline for assured
seating is May 22. Some tickets
may be available after that date.
Please call The Parsonage at
552-2909 for more information.

Benefit for LIFE

The Bay Area affiliates of
LIFE (Lobby for Individual
Freedom and Equality) will hold
a fundraiser on May 28, at the
home of John Newmeyer, 2004
Gough from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Champagne, wine and hors
d’oeuvres; $40 per person dona¬
tion. RSVP to Charlie Howell
626-4948 or Don Disler, 392-
2800.

The Lobby for Individual
Freedom and Equality is a state¬
wide bipartisan association of
gay and lesbian organizations
which has as its predominant
focus the promotion of effective
and responsible AIDS policies
and practices and other legisla¬
tion dealing with lesbian and gay
rights. A full time lobbyist is
employed in Sacramento for
these purposes. •

Organizing Meetings
For Lesbian Conf.

The newly-formed Lesbian
Agenda for Action (LAA) has an¬
nounced that a weekend con¬
ference to address a lesbian po¬
litical agenda and to organize a
network for Bay Area lesbians
and lesbian organizations will be
held on Saturday, Sept. 19 and
Sunday, Sept. 20 in San Fran¬
cisco.

Planning meetings to organize
and determine the scope of the
conference, to reach the diverse
members of the lesbian commu¬
nity and develop topics for
workshops, will be held the first
and third Wednesday of each
month at the Women’s Building,
3543 18th Street (at Valencia) in

San Francisco. Meetings begin at
6 p.m. and conclude at 7:30 p.m.

Lesbian Agenda for Action, is
committed to involving lesbians
of color, older lesbians, lesbian
youth and disabled lesbians in
the conference planning.

For further information on
Lesbian Agenda for Action and
planning for the conference,
please call Jean Harris at (415)
285-4725. •

EBLGDC Focuses
On Civil Rights

The East Bay Lesbian/Gay
Democratic Club is sponsoring a
public forum concerning the
AIDS situation in the East Bay
with a focus on civil rights issues.
Covered will be pending federal,
state and local legislation as well
as the availability of local serv¬
ices. All are welcome, Wednesday,
May 27, 7:30 p.m. For location,
call 849-3983. •

Stop Smoking Clinic

The Office of Senior Informa¬
tion, Referral and Health Promo¬
tion is starting up a Stop Smok¬
ing Clinic for older adults. The
program will consist of eight two-
hour classes that will meet on
week days between Monday and
Friday.

Under the auspices of the
American Lung Association and
in cooperation with the San Fran¬
cisco Department of Public
Health, a reduced course fee of
only $15 will be charged. This in¬
cludes course materials and a
text book.

Interested older persons
should call 626-1033 for more in¬
formation. •

Health Project
Seeks Volunteer
Therapists

The AIDS Health Project, an
AIDS prevention and education
program concerned with the
psychosocial aspects of AIDS, is
pleased to announce the start of
its new Volunteer Therapist Pro¬
gram. The program is designed
to recruit therapists in private
practice who are interested in
volunteering at least one hour a
week to see people with AIDS or
ARC in San Francisco who are
unable to pay for mental health
services.

Laurie Yamamoto, M.S.W., has
recently been hired at the AIDS
Health Project to coordinate
AIDS/ARC referrals to volunteer
therapists in the community. In
order to best serve the diverse
populations affected by AIDS,
the Volunteer Therapist Program
is especially interested in draw¬
ing clinicians who are sensitive to
the needs of gay and bisexual
men, women, people of color, and
those with substance abuse prob¬
lems.

To qualify for the program, vol¬
unteer therapists must have a
valid license to practice in Cali¬
fornia and malpractice insur¬
ance. In appreciation for these
services, the AIDS Health Pro¬
ject will offer ongoing AIDS and
mental health programming for
volunteer therapists.

For further information con¬
tact Laurie Yamamoto, volunteer
therapist coordinator, on Mon¬
day, Wednesday, Thursday after¬
noons, or Friday at (415)
476-6430. •

BAY AREA REPORTER MAY 21. 1987 PAGE 10

Back To The Country

w;

r hen I was 22, Butch was
my best friend. I had
moved to the country to
teach, and Butch was the 17-year-
old kid who lived on the farm
across the road from me. We had
little in common, I thought at
first. I was a university graduate
from an upper-middle-class fam¬
ily, playing at living the country
life. Butch was the oldest son in
a family of illiterates, trapped
by the very life I had come to
explore.

We became friends anyway.
Desperate for experience and
adventure, I threw myself at the
mercy of my teenaged Appala¬
chian neighbor, who introduced
me to all the rituals of country liv¬
ing. Butch taught me to ride
horses and wrestle calves. He also
showed me how to put up hay and
harvest corn. After school, we
went on cattle round-ups through
the mountains together. On the
weekends we went away fishing
and swimming in the creek be¬
hind my cabin.

In return, I didn’t offer much.
I told Butch about life in the city
and introduced him to 10-speed
bicycles, 35mm cameras, and
Japanese automobiles. Some¬
times I took him to sports events
or to movies in town. And once in
a while I gave him a place to
escape to when he needed to get
away from home. Mostly I just
played older brother to someone
who gave me far more than he
received.

I soon came to recognize
Butch’s very special qualities.
Often, after dinner or chores,
we’d lie in the fields, look up at
the stars, and talk about the
things that were important to us.
This, I realized, was no ignorant
hillbilly kid. Thoughtful and sen¬
sitive, he had the mind of a young
philosopher and the soul of a
poet. On a more superficial (phys¬
ical) level, he attracted my atten¬
tion as well. Is it any wonder,
then, that under the spell of his
soft mountain drawl, his probing
yet unsophisticated intellect, and

Bi

his sweet, gentle disposition, I fell
madly in love with him?

I utch returned my affec-
. tion — of that I am cer-
' tain. Unfortunately, he
had a difficult time finding an
appropriate way to respond to
my silent emotional invitation. I
doubt he had ever met anyone
quite like me before, and he must
have been baffled and disturbed
by the possibilities I represented.

I too was baffled and disturbed
because I didn’t know exactly
what to make of Butch either or
how far to push him. Eventually,
following a sunset ride on our
horses one night, I told him I was
gay — which I hadn’t done be¬
fore. I also told him I loved him.
He didn’t respond immediately,
and when he did, he simply said,
“But that’s wrong.” We rode our
horses back to the house and
turned on the TV.

Butch never turned against
me. He still cared for me follow¬
ing my confession, but I think he
resented my categorizing our
feelings, giving them a name
which was unacceptable to him.
Later, he developed a crush on
another teacher, a female friend
of mine, and that was it. We never
spoke of love again.

After two years in the country,
I left for a distant city where peo¬
ple didn’t think it was wrong to
feel as I felt. I returned to see
Butch twice in the following three
years for very brief visits, then
not again until eight years later
— this month. I didn’t let anyone
know I was coming, for I wasn’t
sure whether I would contact
anyone or simply wander familiar
paths.

But when I arrived, I knew I
had to see Butch again. So I
called his parents, who told me
that he was out fishing with his
girlfriend. Since they were due
back any minute, I decided to
wait for them at the farm.

At first glance, the person who
walked in the door was a stranger.
Butch had lost much of his hair

Kid Poll OKs
Gay Teachers

NEW YORK— Despite the
cantankerous views of conserva¬
tive politicians, a nationwide poll
of 1,000 American youths indi¬
cated a thumbs-up for gay and
lesbian schoolteachers.

The American Chicle
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Roper Organization, showed
an eight percent difference in at¬
titudes toward gay and lesbian
teachers. Forty-nine percent of

as well as many of his teeth since
I had seen him last. He had made
up for it by gaining 30 or 40
pounds across the middle. Be¬
cause he had been drinking down
by the creek, he was loud and
crude, and for the first few min¬
utes, I felt more than a little un¬
comfortable in his presence.
“Who is this good ol’ boy?” I
wondered. “Where is the intro¬
spective soul I once knew?”

It didn’t take long, however, to
recognize my friend beneath the
altered exterior. As we drove his
truck back to the creek to look for
his horse, he started reminiscing
about “the good old days” and
longing for their return. “I’d give
anything if I could turn back the
clock,” he said. “Shoot, I don’t
have nobody to ride with no
more. I don’t have any friends
like you.”

I n many ways. Butch feels
like he’s had a bum deal
since his high school days.
His first wife divorced him and
had him declared an unfit father
to his two children. He has a third
child by his present girlfriend,
but it doesn’t seem to be enough.
Jobwise, he’s done a little of
everything over the past few
years. Right now, he’s working as
the foreman of a road crew, and
he travels all over the state.

It’s not a bad job, even if he
does get to come home only on
the weekends, but he says it
causes him too much stress. “I’ve
got ulcers bad,” he said. “I’m
bleeding at both ends.

“To tell you the truth, Mike,
I’ve had two breakdowns, and
I’m about due for a third,” Butch
continued. “It’s just that things
get on my nerves. But basically,
I don’t care if I’m here or not. I
don’t care what happens to me.”

Naturally, I was sorry to hear
all this, but fortunately. Butch
has a safety valve — trips home
to an area he loves despite its
limitatons. “I’ve been all over the
country,” he said, “and there’s no

place I like as much as this. I can
get away from people back here.
There ain’t nobody to bother me.
Don’t you miss it, Mike? Don’t
you want to come back? Come on
back, Mike. I’ll get you a job. You
can work for me. I’d love it if you
would. What do you say?”

What did I say? Nothing. I was
touched by his enthusiasm and
his show of devotion. I was
pleased that despite the inter¬
vening years and unavoidable
changes, our friendship still
meant something to both of us.
But I didn’t take his offer seri¬
ously. He was slightly drunk, and
I had better options — like stay¬
ing where I am.

I really don’t know what I ex¬
pected when I returned to the
country to see Butch. I certainly
didn’t expect to resurrect the past
or to arrange an impossibly idyl¬
lic future. But neither did I ex¬
pect to find the nature of our
relationship fundamentally un¬
changed.

I still love Butch. He still cares
for me. Neither of us is going to
do anything about that, but it’s
nice to know that sometimes you
can go home again. •

the 1,000 youths said gays should
be allowed to be teachers while 41
percent were opposed. Eight per¬
cent said they didn’t know while
one percent didn’t know what a
homosexual was.

The poll also revealed deep
concern by the youths for AIDS.
Sixty-five percent said they were
very concerned about the spread
of AIDS while 20 percent said
they were somewhat concerned
and ten percent were not con¬
cerned.

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Church Sends Out
The Welcome Mat

CHICAGO—Gay and lesbian
folks are now welcome in the
United Methodist Church’s
(UMC) Reconciling Congre¬
gations. This decision was
reached at the first national con¬
vention of the organization in
Chicago.

The convention was attended
by representatives of 22 existing
Reconciling Congregations as
well as observers from other
UMC churches.

The only sour note of the con¬
vention was that the president of
UMC’s General Board of Disci-
pleship decided not to send a rep¬
resentative. Participation would
have violated the UMC’s official
ban on any group which pro¬
motes “the acceptance of homo¬
sexuality.’’

—The Windy City Times
of Chicago

Dutch Treat
At Sunday Mass

DEN BOSCH, The Nether-
lands—Although The Nether¬
lands has been described as one
of Europe’s more open-minded
nations, the Dutch have their
cranky curmudgeons, too. Re¬
cently, scores of Dutch gays
sought to make one Roman Cath¬
olic bishop a little more cranky.

This city’s local bishop,
Johannes ter Schure wanted
to keep gays from going tc the
communion rail at St. Jan’s
Cathedral. However, the gays—
wearing pink triangles—planned
to approach the rail to receive the
Host from their host. Ter Schure,
for sure, had a trick up his chasu¬
ble. He instructed altar boys to
distribute the Host to all
parishioners in their seats, in¬
cluding communicants who wore
the pink triangle.

The official word from ter
Schure’s press agent was that the
communion was distributed in
this fashion because of the large
crowd in the cathedral. How¬
ever, protest organizer Floris
Michiels said the decision to
ignore gays in the cathedral was
“a very special manner of dis¬
criminating.”

—The Associated Press

Jersey Judge
Jerks Landlord
Back To Reality

JERSEY CITY, New Jer-

sey— A little history concerned
with tenant-landlord relations
and how they apply to AIDS was
made recently in New Jersey. A
judge ruled that a Jersey City
landlord could not refuse to rent
an apartment to three gay men
because he suspected they might
have AIDS.

Superior Court Judge Bur¬
rell Ives said that because AIDS
is a handicap and therefore falls
under the state’s antidiscrimina¬
tion laws, the landlord was wrong
in not renting to Alan Berman,
Lee Scher and Ira Estis.

The case involves two ironies,
however. None of the three men
have AIDS. After the case was
decided, they decided not to
move into the apartment house
because they feared harassment
from the landlord.

—The Hudson (NJj Dispatch
and The New Jersey News

Gay Publisher
Bashed In Office

CHICAGO - The Iron Fist
continues to cause problems in
Chicago. The anti-gay organiza¬
tion has been causing all kinds of
personal havoc for gay Chicago¬
ans in the city’s Hyde Park dis¬
trict. Recently, the secret organ¬
ization bashed the publisher of
Chicago’s Windy City Times, a
gay newspaper.

Jeffrey McCourt, publisher
of the Times, is certain that two
men who beat him with a base¬
ball bat in his office on March 21
were members of “The Great
White Brotherhood of the Iron
Fist.”

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(Photo: Rink)

‘AIDS gets into this country in ways you wouldn’t even
think of Terrorists cross our borders carrying a more
dangerous bomb in their bodies than in their hands. They
come from camps where AIDS is rife.’

—a paranoid South African foreign
minister Roelof F. Botha
(The Associated Press)

‘I’ve submitted a stack of papers to the Supreme Court
a foot high and that’s just been the important papers . ..
I believe the world is changing, that we’re at the end oj
the right-wing backlash. Sharon was caught in a New
Right swing, trapped in a “Father Knows Best” scenario.
We will keep trying different forms of court action until
we get a release.’

—^Attorney SUE WILSON, telling about
SHARON KOWALSKI, a lesbian, who has
been denied the right of a visit by her

‘Do I regret it? Not real¬
ly. It’s a part of who I am,
part of my history. It’s not
a convenient thing for
someone who’s been elect¬
ed to office to have in his
background, and it will be
there forever. So, in that
sense, sure ... I now see it
as not a very smart thing
to do. But it’s not some¬
thing I view as some big
moral failing.’

—West Hollywood Mayor
STEVE SCHULTE, talking
about his early days in
California when he posed
in the nude.

(The Advocate)

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‘Gays definitely took the lead in the pre-AIDS ’70s.
Their clubs were the hottest and most desirable sweatboxes
in town.’

—Writer BRAD GOOCH
(Vanity Fair)

Delaware Domes
Decry 'Swill Pits'

WILMINGTON, DL-Two

leaders of the Delaware state
House experienced political
schizophrenia when they recent¬
ly dealt with gay men and les¬
bians. The two leaders. House
Majority Leader Rep. William
A. Oberle, Jr. and House
Speaker B. Bradford Barnes
found themselves making allega¬
tions about gay people and gay
bars before finally recanting
their statements.

The shenanigans began when
Oberle called for an investigation
into charges that gay bars in
Delaware were allowing sexual in¬
tercourse on the premises.
Oberle asked state Public Health
Director Dr. Lyman Olsen to
investigate the charges.

Barnes characterized the mo¬
tel rooms of the Renegade, a
popular gay bar and disco in
Rehoboth Beach as “swill pits”
and gay bars in Rehoboth Beach
as ‘‘breeding grounds...the East

Coast distributors” of AIDS.
Barnes said he would introduce
in the House a bill outlawing
homosexual activity as a way of
stopping AIDS. The state hasn’t
had a sodomy law on the books
for more than 15 years.

Olsen, however, said that
“simplistic” solutions to control
the spread of AIDS would be
harmful, and that it is counter¬
productive to blame gays for
AIDS. “Perhaps some of our re¬
sources should be used to work
with that group,” said Olsen,
“rather than beating on a group
that is well aware of the prob¬
lem.”

Olsen’s cutting remarks drove
the point home to Barnes, who
withdrew a proposed sodomy bill.
He also apologized to his col¬
leagues for considering that leg¬
islation.

The local gay community en¬
gaged in a fierce letter-writing
campaign against the two legis¬
lators, both Republicans.
Lawsuits were threatened. Soon,
the issue blew over.

BAY AREA REPORTER MAY 21, 1987 PAGE 12

Kennedy Takes Lead In AIDS Fight

S aying that he is “disgusted
and fed up” with the inac¬
tion of the Reagan admin¬
istration on the AIDS crisis, and
after having watched while Ad¬
ministration officials are fighting
among themselves and their con¬
servative supporters outside gov¬
ernment about what to do, or not
do, about the epidemic, Massa¬
chusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, along
with other Democratic senators,
has introduced the first com¬
prehensive AIDS bill which
opens Congressional debate on
how to battle the deadly disease.

Calling for an end to the fear
and hysteria surrounding the epi¬
demic, Kennedy unveiled a $900
million “care and compassion”
proposal last week to intensify
research, education and treat¬
ment of the disease. Kennedy’s
proposal calls for $450 million
for a national program of AIDS
education, prevention and risk
reduction; $100 million to
develop better treatment and
care for AIDS patients; and $350
million for research.

Kennedy and Maryland Sen.
Barbara Mikulski, a co-sponsor
of the bill, held a press con¬
ference and criticized the
Reagan Administration for not
devoting more time and resour¬
ces to the epidemic. “There has
been no clear policy, no strategy”
Mikulski said. The Democrats’
proposal, which Kennedy pre¬
dicted will get Republican back¬
ing, would triple spending pro¬
posed by the Administration for
an education program aimed at
high-risk groups—intravenous
drug users, gay and bi4exual
men, blacks and Hispanics and
women of child-bearing age.

Under the Kennedy proposal,
the federal government would of¬
fer grants to state governments,
through the Centers for Disease
Control, to begin or expand local
information programs. It would
also establish an AIDS fellowship
program for health professionals.

Another $100 million in feder¬
al grants would be available to
public and private facilities that
provide medical care for AIDS
patients or refer them elsewhere
for help. This money would be
used for development of care pro¬
grams and counseling programs.

An undetermined amount,
which Kennedy estimated at
about $350 million, would be
spent to train more researchers,
set up additional AIDS research
centers and reduce grant ap¬
proval time.

At a hearing held after Ken¬
nedy’s press conference, health
care officials applauded the pro¬
posed legislation. “We must
adopt a moon-shot approach to
resource commitment,” said Dr.
Stephen Joseph, health commis¬
sioner for New York City, where
more than 10,000 cases, or 30
percent of the national total, have
been reported since 1981.

Joseph also criticized the Ad¬
ministration’s mishandling of the
AIDS epidemic. “With the ex¬
ception of the outstanding exam¬
ple of Surgeon General Koop,
leadership has so far been lack¬
ing,” Dr. Joseph said. “This bill
is a significant step forward, the
best news to date.”

n

eanwhile, within the
Reagan Administration,
.. the attack on Dr. Koop
his AIDS view has split be-
len conservatives within and
side of the government. Some

conservatives, surprisingly, who
are upset over what they call the
“self-appointed intrusion” of
other conservatives into the
AIDS debate, have come to the
defense of the Surgeon General,
who has been under attack from
arch-conservatives as Phyllis
Schlafly for their outspoken
views on how to combat the epi¬
demic.

“To ignore reality within our
society is to act like ostriches,”
wrote Douglas Lee, chairman of
Americans for Nuclear Energy,
to Schlafly, who initiated the
campaign against Koop several
months ago. “As a conservative,
I resent your self-appointed intru¬
sion into this discussion, this is a
medical problem, not a political
problem,” wrote Lee.

Koop’s report to the nation on
AIDS last October, which called
for sex education as early as
elementary school and pleaded
for compassion for people with
AIDS, has transformed public
debate on the epidemic. Since
then, Koop has engaged in an
unusually frank discussion on
how AIDS is spread and has call¬
ed for the advertisement of con¬
doms on television and in other
media. While Schlafly and her
supporters have apparently been
successful in marshalling oppo¬
sition to Dr. Koop, in recent
weeks, others in the conservative
community have begun to fight
back—against their own—in his
support.

Among other things, Schlafly
objects to Koop’s promotion of
condoms as the best way to
reduce the spread of AIDS and
has criticized him for advocating
sex education that would teach
what she calls “safe sodomy and
safe fornication with condoms”
to children. She has also describ¬
ed his comments on AIDS as
nothing more than “a coverup
for the homosexual community.”

Meanwhile, while Ronald Rea¬
gan continues to ignore the epi¬
demic, hoping, apparently that it
will take care of itself, and while
his political advisors and conser¬
vative supporters argue against
most any action, Sen. Kennedy
has decided, thankfully, that he
will be the point man in a na¬
tional fight against AIDS.

Ted Kennedy deserves the
gratitude of a worried nation in
his decisive forthright program
against an epidemic that has at¬
tacked over 36,000 Americans, of
whom nearly 21,000 have died.
Ronald Reagan should hang his
head in embarrassment and
shame. Once again the loyal
opposition had to take the lead in
a desperate situation.

T he San Francisco sponsors
of the Human Rights
Campaign Fund are hold¬
ing a fundraising celebration of
the Golden Gate Bridge’s 50th
birthday at 2960 Broadway on
Sunday, May 24. This is a good
way to celebrate, watch the
fireworks, etc., and raise badly
needed money for a good cause.
Congresswoman Barbara Boxer
and longtime gay rights activist
Jerry Berg will be honored for
their contributions and efforts to
our community, and I hope to see
you there; ($100, 7:30 p.m.;
hosted bar, etc., 546-7635 for
info.)

The influential Chinese-
American Democratic Club
(CADA) endorsed John Molinari
for mayor last week with a whop¬
ping 78 percent of the vote.

Mother Lode, the bar at Post
and Larkin streets will hold an
auction June 3 from 7:30 on to
benefit one of my favorite
groups—the AIDS Emergency
Fund and they need items to be
auctioned (928-6006 if you can
help).

In Los Angeles, Wally George,
the anti-gay host of the raucous
TV talk show Hot Seat announc¬
ed his candidacy for mayor in
1988 against Tom Bradley.

The Connecticut House of
Representatives on a tie vote kill¬
ed a gay-rights bill last that would
have banned discrimination
against gays in housing, employ¬
ment, and other areas, and
leaders of the Democratic major¬
ity that failed to rally their own
votes, said the bill is considered
dead for this session.

In Maine the state’s Episcopal
diocese announced that it will
enlist 20,000 members to fight
AIDS. Included: distribute con¬
doms, promote sex education and
help AIDS patients. And in
Massachusetts, the state’s largest
teachers union endorsed making
condoms available to grade 7-12

students to fight AIDS.

The first poll (done by Teich-
ner Associates) on the Senate
race for next year shows Secre¬
tary of State March Fong Eu
leading among the Democrats ir
the race to oppose Republican
Pete Wilson (sorry about that
Leo).

Reeling from a state senate
election loss that most expected
them to win, senate Republicans

wasted no time in kicking out
GOP Floor Leader Jim Nielsen
and replacing him with moderate
Ken Maddy of Fresno.

Everyone is invited, however, to
tonight’s gay and lesbian com¬
munity Molinari for Mayor cam¬
paign kickoff and rally at the
Trocadero Transfer; Sharon
McNight will entertain, dancing,
comedy, music, speeches, etc.,
(8-11 p.m.; admission free). •

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BAY AREA REPORTER MAY 21. 1987 PAGE 13

Bay to Breakers 'Race'
A Crosstown Party

by Allen White

Twenty minutes after the gun went off, the Heal AIDS with
Love centipede crossed the starting line in the 1987 Bay to
Breakers. The dozens of gay people who participated in the
centipede were just a few of the gay men and lesbians who
were in this year’s event. Don Crawford, as he did two years
ago, mobilized the Heal AIDS with Love centipede. During the
course of the run, Crawford said that over 60 people were part
of the unit.

As they crossed the starting
line he said there were about 40
people. Included in the centipede
were runners who had come from
New York City, Seattle, Los An¬
geles, and San Diego as well as
from all over the Bay Area. Craw¬
ford is a person with AIDS Re¬
lated Complex (ARC) and a few of
the people who joined his con¬
tingent have been diagnosed with
AIDS.

“It was great to have people
cheering us on,” he said. He com¬
mented about ihe many 'people
who gave the group support as
they went over the Hayes Street
hill. Crawford remembers hear¬
ing the music from stereos and
watching people who were having
early morning parties. One of the

big party areas was at Hayes and
Steiner Streets. People were hold¬
ing forth with parties on many
levels of apartment buildings.

Some lesbians gathered in
groups on the Panhandle as the
runners made their way to Gold¬
en Gate Park. Many gathered in
bars on Hayes Street in the Hayes
Valley near Gough Street to have
an early morning drink and
party.

Many members of the San
Francisco FrontRunners were
also entered in the Bay to Break¬
ers. Following the race the group
had their own picnic.

FrontRunners was the official
gay picnic of the Bay to Breakers.
The unofficial gay party, and the

And the winners are: Arturo Barrios (far left) and Rosa Mota (shaking hands).

(Photo: James Dusch)

official Bay to Breakers event was
the Footstock in Golden Gate
Park.

The many costumed runners
mingled together. Condoms
mixed with Golden Gate Bridge
look-alikes as an occasional Jim
and Tammy Bakker would ap¬
pear. Going in drag has become

no big deal and male nuns have
now become so commonplace it
is boring. The largest condom in
the race was ten feet long. Two
women dressed as condoms with
sunglasses and porkpie hats.

The 1987 Bay to Breakers was
won by Arturo Barrios with a win¬
ning time of 34 minutes, 44 sec¬

onds. Rosa Mota won for the wo¬
men in 39 minutes, 15 seconds.
Lisa Martin w^s second with a
time of 39:19; Lorraine !lfloiler
placed third with 40:06, and
Robyn Root’s fourth place time
was 40:06.

Over 100,000 people partici¬
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Take Public Transit to Bridgewaik

The Golden Gate Bridge turns 50 on Sunday, May 24. If you’re go¬
ing to the celebration, please don’t drive. Take public transportation.
Parking is limited and some roads will be closed. Arrive early. The open¬
ing ceremonies begin at 6 a.m. and bridgewaik continues until 8 a.m.
but be sure to arrive no later than 7 a.m. for bridgewaik. For more in¬
formation on special transit services and schedules, call Muni at
673-6864, BART at 788-2278, Golden Gate Transit and Ferry at
332-6600 in San Francisco and 453-2100 in Marin. For Caltrain infor¬
mation, call 800-558-8661. #

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Healthy Adaptation

New Study Shows Same-Sex Couples
More Intimate, Flexible in Relationships

by Robert Leone

T he first thing you notice upon entering Michael Hettinger’s comfort¬
able office is a small bookshelf filled not with weighty volumes by Jung
or Maslowe, as you might expect from a marriage and family coun¬
selor, but rather with dozens of little toy figures. Trees, animals, a green
monster, a woman on a surfboard, children. They are important tools in the
counseling process, he says. Bettinger’s clients use them to figure out what
is going on in their lives.

By setting up a scene of their own choosing in a tray of sand and then
describing the scene, the truth is often revealed with great clarity. One client
perceived himself as a bird, high up in a tree. Below him was a landscape
filled with activity. Feeling uninvolved with the mainstream of life, his wish
was to have the bird (himself) come down from his perch and become a
participant. _

“I give as few instructions as
possible,” Bettinger said. “It’s a
way of getting at what’s going on
without a lot of intellectualiza-
tion.’ ’

Bettinger has worked as a
counselor in the gay community
here for the last 12 years. Recent¬
ly, he completed a study of 100
gay men — 50 couples — who
have been together from one year
to 47 years. They range in age
from early 20s to over 70 and, for
the most part, are proud of the
relationships that they are in and
were eager to share their experi¬
ences. The entire project, from
planning to published results,
took over two years.

The purpose of Bettinger’s
research was to “get an under¬
standing of three aspects of gay
male relationships: how satisfied
the men are with their relation¬
ships, how emotionally close they
are to each other and how flexi¬
ble they are within the relation¬
ship.

“When I went into this project
I felt that I wouldn’t find that
much difference between gay
men, lesbians ahd heterosexual
couples, and that is essentially
what I found. Something univer¬
sal goes on in relationships, re¬
gardless of sexual orientation. If
you had a transcript of a couple
discussing their relationship it
would be real hard to tell the sex¬
ual orientation or gender of the
people involved unless they made
specific references to it,” Bet¬
tinger said.

In terms of closeness, lesbians
came out to be the closest, gay
men came out in the middle and
straight couples ran a distant
third. “Men are forever talked
about as being different, emo¬
tionally uninvolved with each
other,” Bettinger said, “but
when gay men form relationships
they are significantly closer than
married couples,” who are usual¬
ly considered the traditional stan¬
dard bearers for such behavior.

Bettinger based his observa¬
tions on such criteria as doing
things together, common friends,
feelings of emotional bonding,
how much space is shared, com¬
mon interests and common deci¬
sion making.

In the area of relationship
satisfaction, Bettinger found
more statistically significant, yet
unexpected, results from his re¬
search. Gay men who were previ¬
ously in a heterosexual marriage
found a much higher level of sat¬
isfaction in their current gay rela¬
tionship. According to Bettinger,
several possible explanations

exist for this phenomenon, such
as marriage being a learning ex¬
perience and transferable to gay
relationships.

There may also be a pre¬
selection factor involved. Those
previously married men may be
committed to working things out
if they were motivated enough to
go through the legal process of
getting married in the first place.
Their reasons for leaving the
marriage may not have been due
to lack of commitment but rather
a necessity to honor their gay
feelings.

Bettinger based relationship
satisfaction on such criteria as
consensus within the relationship
(seeing things the same or dif¬
ferently), amount of affection,
handling of finances, sex, matters
of recreation, aims, goals, things
they believe in and the handling
of household tasks. He also ask¬
ed, how often do you or your mate
leave the house after a quarrel, do
you kiss each other, do you have
stimulating discussions of ideas,
do you laugh together?

The matter of flexibility within
the relationship had gay men and
lesbians coming out similar to
each other and more adaptable
than straight married couples.
“Traditionally there have been
no role models for gay relation¬

ships — responsibilities can’t be
assigned by gender as in hetero¬
sexual couplings,” Bettinger
said.

“In gay relationships either
one could wind up doing the
dishes or keeping the finances
and this can change. Married
couples tend to be more rigid.
Homosexual couples are more
geared to what’s needed at any
given time — probably a very
healthy adaptation.”

His study yielded another in¬
teresting bit of information. Men
who had many previous relation¬
ships are less likely to show affec¬
tion than those with a small num¬
ber of ex-lovers or boyfriends.
Bettinger reasons that this may
have to do with fear of rejection.
Possibly, if a person has difficul¬
ty showing affection in the first
place the relationship breaks up
because affection can’t be shared
and the pattern keeps repeating
itself.

Any discussion of gay men and
their intimate relationships
would be incomplete without
some mention of AIDS and its ef¬
fect on our lives. Bettinger put it
this way, “My guess, as a clini¬
cian, is that AIDS is going to be
something akin to being in a war.
A lot of the members of our com-
(Continued on page 18 )

Name The Violence

It Isn't Supposed to Happen - But It Does

by Dianne Gregory

S he couldn’t believe it. It had happened again. Last time, she thought,
last time had been the penultimate. But this time it was even worse.
She had gone and killed Samantha, a poor defenseless little kitten she
had gotten from the Humane Society on Castro just last Saturday. Just threw
it up against the wall. She said she wouldn’t let nothing, nothing stand in
the way between her and her love. Had screamed it at the top of her lungs
so all the neighbors could hear. And then she had tried to strangle her, and
it had taken her more strength than she knew she had to get away.

When she finally got out of the
house, a miracle in itself it seem¬
ed, she didn’t know where to go.
She couldn’t call Sheila, not after
the last time. Sheila had taken
her in then, but when she went
back, Sheila had said she must be
some kind of a masochist and
told her she had had enough of
her troubles.

Should she call the cops?
What would she say? That her
“roommate” had gone crazy?
But then they would probably
take Jason away and put him in
Foster Care. And he was just a lit¬
tle kid.

She sat on the corner staring
into the distance, unable to weep.

★ ★ ★

The preceding is a story com¬
piled from many, and while rath¬
er severe in its violence, certain¬
ly not impossible by any means.

Violence between lesbians just
isn’t supposed to happen, but it
does, and we’ve got to start talk¬
ing about it realistically.

You think it’s a phenomenon
among bar dykes, or lesbians into
S&M and role playing. You think
the batterer must be big and
strong, a victim of child abuse,
alcoholic. You think the victim of
battering must be exaggerating,
or must have provoked her at¬
tacker in some extreme way. You
think she must be weak and pas¬
sive, a natural victim. And you
probably think it’s just the dy¬
namics of that particular rela¬
tionship, certainly not something
that happens all the time. Cer¬
tainly not to anyone you know.

The truth is that batterers and
their victims may or may not be
bar dykes or into S&M and role
playing. Batterers come in all
sizes, as do their victims, may
have been abused as children,
and may have come from a “nor¬
mal” home. They may be alco¬
holics or drug addicts and they
may not.

The truth is that victims of bat¬
tering aren’t exaggerating, and
no matter what the provocation,
violence is never appropriate.
The truth is that victims of bat¬
tering may seem passive because
they go so far out of their way to
avoid another fight, which is usu¬
ally not possible.

Violent behavior is not some¬
thing that happens to someone
else. It happens to us, and we do
it to one another.

And you probably think the
battering is mutual because both
parties may participate in the ac¬
tual violence. That’s because you
probably think of the violence as
a function of anger when it’s ac¬
tually a function of control. The
batterer thinks of herself as
angry, but what so angers her is
her perceived loss of control over
her “loved” one.

“I think you are a victim if you
are the one who always tries to
avoid arguments,” Cory Dziggel
writes in “The Perfect Couple”
from Naming the Violence:

Speaking Out About Lesbian
Battering. “I think you are the
victim if you spend your life tip¬
toeing around the other person in
order to avoid any controversy or
frustration. I think you are a vic¬
tim if you become silent in order
to restrain or stop the violence of
the other person. I think that you
are a victim if you apologize for
doing wrong even when you be¬
lieve sincerely that you haven’t
done wrong but are apologizing
in order to try to pacify and stop
an argument.

“I believe that you are a victim
when you begin to agree with
someone that their truth is truth
even if you know it objectively to
be a falsehood. I think that you
are a victim when you begin to
feel like you are going crazy be-
cause^ou clearly understood the
other person to say one thing and
she adamantly, righteously and
indignantly insists that she said
something else (though her story
may change any number of times
within the space of fifteen min¬
utes — each story being incom¬
patible with the prior story) and
that you are the one who mis¬
understood.

“I think that you are a victim
when you begin to doubt your
own worth. I think that you are a
victim when you do things that
frighten and scare you just to get
away from the other person. I
think that you are a victim when
you begin to do things that are
self-destructive in response to the
other person’s anger and abuse.
I think that you are a victim when
you give up on yourself, your
dreams, your activities, your
pleasures in order to please the
other person.”

Barbara Hart, in “Lesbian
Battering: An Examination”
from Naming the Violence,
writes that there is no profile of
a lesbian batterer. But she says
for a lesbian to choose to batter
her partner she must conclude
that: “she is entitled to control
her partner and that it is her
partner’s obligation to acquiesce
in this practice; violence is per¬
missible (she can live with herself
and conclude that she is an ethi¬
cal/moral person even if she
chooses violence against her
partner); violence will produce

the desired effect or minimize a
more negative occurrence; vio¬
lence will not unduly danger her
(she will neither sustain physical
harm nor suffer legal, economic,
or personal consequences that
will outweigh the benefit achiev¬
ed through the violence).”

Morgaine Wilder, in a recent
address on the subject, conclud¬
ed that batterers have these is¬
sues in common: isolation, lack
of external support, insecure, low
self-esteem or self-image, and
lack of impulse control.

And the violence may not take
the form of the classic “Punch
and Judy Show” sort of behavior.
It can include sexual assault,
damage to property, threats, eco¬
nomic control, psychological or
emotional abuse, and even homo-
phobic control. It usually runs in
a cyclical pattern of increasing
tension, followed by assault, fol¬
lowed by apologies and promises
“never do it again,” only to be
replaced by increasing tension
again after a “honeymoon”
phase.

If a victim seeks to break the
cycle of violence, to get help from
the outside, there is precious lit¬
tle available to her. She can go to
court and get a restraining order,
which may or may not be helpful
and will certainly be painful. If
there is a child caught in the mid¬
dle he or she may end up suffer¬
ing more than anyone. She can
call a crisis line or try to get help
from a battered woman’s shelter,
but these are geared toward het¬
erosexual violence and she may
have to confront homophobia
there.

She may be able to find a sup¬
port group, but there are few of
those around.

Therapy may or may not be the
answer. If the therapist treats it
as a “relationship” problem
rather than a problem of impulse
control on the part of the bat¬
terer, more damage may be done
to the psyche of the victim, who
tends to blame herself anyway.
And even if the therapist does
not, care must be taken to protect
the victim because the batterer
usually gets more violent when
faced with her problem.

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Opens Spacious New Quarters

by Allen White

The Shanti Project has moved into its new home South of
Market and for many of their staff it is a dream come true. The
new location at 525 Howard Street (between 1st and 2nd
Streets) is a multi-level building with wide openings to give
a free airy feeling. In January 1983, director Jim Geary was
the only employee. With space in the old Pride Center on
Hayes Street, Geary used to sleep in his office. At the time the
Shanti Project was S4,000 in debt.

Jim Geary (left), the director of Shanti Project, honors
KRON's Javier Valencia for sensitivity to the AIDS crisis.

(Photo; Tony Plewik)

Bettinger

(Continued from page 16 )

munity are already experiencing
what we call a post-traumatic
stress disorder, similar to what
the veterans of Vietnam have
come back and said about their
lives being disrupted. It’s going
to increase anxiety. A lot of peo¬
ple are going to make healthy
adaptations and some will in¬
crease their use of drugs and al¬
cohol if they are already inclined
that way. My guess is that it will
probably bring more people to¬
gether than it will tear apart.
Men are looking for support,
looking for something real and
not wanting to deal so much with
the surface. I think this is already
true.”

Bettinger wrote of his work

that “the results of the stud;
essentially support the ‘normal
cy’ of gay relationsips. While thii
may not be striking news withii
the gay community, it is hew anc
noteworthy to many profession
als, some of whom still hold t
view that gay relationships an
sick or pathological. My researcl
showed that the structure anc
process of gay relationships are ir
many ways similar to both lesbian
and heterosexual relationships.”

Quite a difference from that
masterpiece of misinformation
Everything you always wanted to
know about sex . .. but were
afraid to ask by Dr. David
Reuben, In his chatty question
and answer format, Reuben talks
about the anonymity of gay sex;
“A homosexual walks into the
men’s washroom and spots an¬
other homosexual. One drops to

Violence

(Continued from previous page)

But all is not so bleak as it may
at first appear. Woman, Inc., a
Bay Area crisis center, began
training volunteers in 1985 to
handle calls from lesbians on its
crisis line. The group has also
started support groups for bat¬
tered lesbians. The organization
conducts a restraining order
clinic to help women face the
often confusing and sometimes
hostile process of getting one.
Other tentative steps have been
made in communities across the
nation, and the National Coali¬
tion Against Domestic Violence

Lesbian Task Force, a national or¬
ganization, has gone so far as to
publish the book. Naming the
Violence.

That’s a start, but if we are to
help the victims of battering
regain control over their own lives
and make batterers responsible
for their own actions, we must dig
our heads out of the sand and un¬
derstand just what the hell is go¬
ing on here. We must stop blam¬
ing the victims of violence for
getting into the situation in the
first place because that is irrele¬
vant, and we must hold the bat¬
terer accountable for her actions
no matter what kinds of excuses
she gives. We must make sure the

Today the Shanti Project has
an annual budget of almost $3
million and there are 54 em¬
ployees.

Jess Randall, finance director
of Shanti, said the new facilities
will provide the space to keep up
with the exploding AIDS epidem¬
ic, while at the same time keep¬
ing the overhead costs to a min¬
imum.

“At one dollar a square foot,
including build out and utilities,
we really got a bargain,” Randall
said. He noted that Shanti will be
paying about half the going mar¬
ket rate for the next five years.

“The space is large enough to
allow us to do our volunteer
training and support groups in-
house,” he said. Currently, local
officials are estimating that the
number of people living with
AIDS in San Francisco will grow
from the current level of 1,200 to
3,500 cases by 1992.

Shanti has also been the recip¬
ient of many gifts by the com¬
munity ranging from a 20-seat
board table to other furniture
and plants. Artwork has also been
donated for the new offices.

As Jim Geary wandered
through the new complex, he was
very specific in inviting all sup¬
porters of Shanti to visit the
offices.

Last Friday night, Shanti took
the opportunity at an open house
to preview several public service
announcements. The spots were
produced by KRON-TV and for
the first time people with AIDS
are being featured in the PSAs
with volunteer counselors.

Shanti also previewed two new
PSAs in Spanish that will be
presented which feature Evelyn
Cisneros, prima ballerina of the
San Francisco Ballet, The spots
will be shown locally on Channel
14, the Spanish language station
in San Francisco.

An award was also presented to
Javier Valencia, public affairs
director at KRON. The award was
given for his continued sensitiv¬
ity to the AIDS crisis and his
work in producing the spots with
people who have AIDS. •

his knees, the other unzips his
pants and a few moments later,
it’s all over. No names, no faces,
no emotions. A masturbation
machine might do it better ...
The primary interest is the penis
not the person.”

As Dr. Reuben saw things back
in 1969 when his book was pub¬
lished, that was pretty much all a
gay man could expect from an
“intimate” relationship with
another man. The rest of the
chapter makes the T-room en¬
counter sound like a warm and
supportive coupling.

While most of us have known
for a long time that there is more
to gay men than Reuben and his
ilk would like to believe, it’s good
to see it set down in black and
white and supported with re¬
search like Michael Bettinger’s.

•

victim of battering feels safe in
our community by being sensi¬
tive to her neeils. We must listen
to her, and we must believe what
we hear.

★ ★ ★

Sources for this article include
Say the Words: Lesbian Violence,
a one-day workshop held in San
Francisco on May 2, 1987, and
Naming the Violence: Speaking
Out About Lesbian Battering,
Kerry Lobel ed,, for the National
Coalition Against Domestic Vio¬
lence Lesbian Task . Force. For
more information on Woman,
Inc., call 8644722. •

BAY AREA REPORTER MAY 21. 1987 PAGE 18

Harry And Mary!

'87 Parade Grand
Marshalls Chosen

It’ll be Harry and Mary for Grand Marshalls this year!*
That’s the catchphrase for this year’s San Francisco Lesbian
and Gay Freedom Day Parade, which will be held on June 28.
The grand marshalls will be San Francisco Sup. Harry Britt
and Gay Games attorney Mary Dunlap.

The two were chosen by an
eight-person panel of community
leaders which included chair
David Lowe of the San Francisco
Sentinel, Bob Cramer of the
Cable Car Awards, CUAV’s Diana
Christensen, author Armistead
Maupin, John Teamer of Black
and White Men Together, Debra
Friedland of Coming Home Hos¬
pice, the AIDS Emergency
Fund’s Margo Hagerman and
David Custead, who is a special
assistant to Mayor Dianne Fein-
stein.

According to William
Thrasher, media co-chair for the
parade, “These two individuals
were chosen for their service to
the community and dedication to
work on the behalf of lesbians
and gay men in the spirit of this
year’s slogan: ‘Proud/Strong/
United.’”

The two grand marshalls rep¬
resent the diversity of the lesbian
and gay communities in one in¬
teresting way which is typical of
the local community. Britt is an
“immigrant,” a native of Texas
who resettled for a better life in

San Francisco. Dunlap, on the
other hand, is a sixth generation
native of California who was born
in Napa County and educated at
UC-Berkeley.

The two grand marshalls have
a colorful history of fighting for
gay and lesbian rights. Britt was
appointed in 1979 to the Board of
Supervisors by Feinstein to fill
the seat left vacant by the
assassination of Sup. Harvey
Milk. Since then, he has fought
for such items as AIDS funding,
partners’ benefits, comparable
worth, rent control and childcare.
Recently, he nearly won the Dem¬
ocratic special election to fill the
late Sala Burton’s congressional
seat.

Dunlap is arguing a case
before the United States
Supreme Court which concerns
Gay Games founder Dr. Tom
Waddell, who wants to have the
right to see his group use the
word, “Olympic,” in its organiza¬
tional name. She has also defend¬
ed numerous gay men and les¬
bians in discrimination cases for
the last decade. •

Hiatt

(Continued from page 5)
zip,” she said.

Said Diefenbach, “Nowhere
(in Hiatt’s report) is there made
any specific references that gay
men make up the highest per¬
centages of AIDS cases. The re¬
port does not address drug usage
nor any minorities such as
Asians, blacks, Hispanics.”

Redick, however, did not see
Hiatt as the problem. “He’s not
the issue,” is all she would say
about calls for his resignation.
She refrained from criticizing or
defending him.

Rev. Jane Spahr, from Marin’s
Ministry of Light which conducts
a spiritual support group for peo¬
ple with AIDS, openly doubted
Hiatt’s ability to do the task
needed to be done. “Because of
his lack of response and a lack of
money for programs, I have ques¬
tions about his competency to do
the job,” she said.

“It’s time for the health de¬
partment to come forward and
put some money out for us,” said
Spahr.

Diefenbach was certain that
Hiatt would have to leave. “At
first I wasn’t sure he had to go,
but now I am,” he said. “This
report is not an isolated incident
of his lack of leadership. We need
to have someone at the head of
HHS who is committed and ac¬
tive. There’s no way this guy is go¬
ing to do it.”

Diefenbach said that the Ma¬
rin Human Rights Commission
did not act on the matter at its
last meeting although he believes
there is private support on the
commission to demand Hiatt’s
removal. The HRC is due to con¬
sider the issue at another hearing
but no date has yet been set.

In the meantime, county offi¬
cials have begun to formulate a
five-year plan for the county to
use in attacking the AIDS epi¬
demic. It is due to be finished by
July, a timetable that Diefenbach
called “hasty.” Nonetheless,
service providers felt encouraged
that Marin County was finally ad¬
dressing the problem.

Hiatt did not return phone
calls to comment on the charges.

•

Bisexual Network
Meets

The first meeting of the Bay
Area Bisexual Network will be
Thursday, May 21, 7 p.m. to
9 p.m. at The Institute for Ad¬
vanced Study of Human Sexuali¬
ty, 1523 Franklin, San Francisco.

This is the first meeting for the
Bay Area Bisexual Network. The
network is composed of various
groups that support bisexuals. A
special report will be given by
Maggi Rubenstein, Autumn
Courtney, and members of the
Pacific Center Bisexual Women’s
Support Group regarding their
networking and experiences from
their attendance at the National
Bisexual Conference held in New
York the week previous.

For more information contact
Maggi Rubenstein (584-0172) or

Ann Justi (863-2356 day or
865-4927 eve). •

Rosalie House
Seeks Volunteers

Volunteers are crucial to the
overall effectiveness of Rosalie
House, a safe temporary shelter
for battered women and their
children and victims of sexual
assault. Rosalie House, open
since Aug. 1983, offers women
and their children a safe, sup¬
portive and enabling environ¬
ment.

Potential volunteers can call
(415) 695-0783 weekdays from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to request infor¬
mation and an application. Re¬
quired training sessions begin
Monday, May 18, at 4 p.m.
through Thursday, May 21. •

Happy Birthday, Harvey!!

Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in San Francisco and the U.S., would have
been 57 years old tomorrow, May 22. Though his time in office was cut tragically short by
assassin Dan White, his contribution to the liberation of gay and lesbian people everywhere
will long be rememered. He loved to clown, but he got the power-brokers to take us seriously.

(Photos: Rink)

Nevada AIDS Fndtn
Expands Services

In Reno, the Nevada AIDS
Foundation operates an informa¬
tion/referral line for those with
questions on AIDS. In addition
to answering questions, the vol¬
unteer staff can refer callers to
health-care professionals, social
services, and support groups
ready to assist those with AIDS

and AIDS-related conditions.
Speakers on AIDS can also be
contacted through the informa¬
tion/referral line.

Those in Northern Nevada
with questions on AIDS are en¬
couraged to call (702) 329-AIDS,
from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., Monday
through Friday.

In June, the Nevada AIDS
Foundation plans to extend the
hours of the information/referral
line. Volunteers are needed to

train as telephone monitors. For
more information call (702)
329-AIDS.

Volunteers are now visiting
merchants in the Reno/Sparks
area distributing posters pro¬
moting the Nevada AIDS Foun¬
dation’s telephone number. Vol¬
unteers are needed to distribute
posters in both the Carson City
and Lake Tahoe areas. For more
information call (702) 329-AIDS.

•

GAY GEJ-Amr WEEKENDS

JUNE 5-7 Yosemite!

JUNE 19-21 Tahoe Camping
JULY 10-12 THE GREAT GAY RAFT RUN
JULY 31-Aug 1 Sea Ranch
AUG. 15-17 Russian River Camping
SEPT. 18-21 CAMP NEVER NEVER LAND

AND MORE!

OCTOBER; HAWAII BACKPACKING
NOVEMBER; PUERTO VALLARTA, MEXICO
WINDJAMMER CARIBBEAN SAILING
DECEMBER; BRAZIL AND PERU

GOA TRAVEL of the eighties has evolved from a travel club that from 1979-1982 organized numerous outings and social
events around the world to over 20,000 gay men and vromen.

In 1984 and 85 came Camp Never Never Land—a very successful camp retreat in the Mendocino redwood forests of
northern California.

Times are different, so now, in 1987 comes a totally new way to travel and meet people. Group travel can be fun, and our
unique trips, and attention to detail will bring you a great new alternative way to get away. Our trips are for men and
women and equally fun for singles, couples and groups of friends.

So come along, and join in on weekends and travel that you’ll never forget!

For further information, call or write:

BOA TRAVEL of the eighties
1618 Castro Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
(415) 647 CAMP
or contact your local travel agent

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Hubert Anderson

Hubert “Bud” Anderson died peace¬
fully at his home on April 30, surround¬
ed by his sister, Wanda, his brother,
Stoney, and his mother, Betty, after liv¬
ing with AIDS for more than 14 months.
He was 34 years old. Hubert was fortunate
to have such a loving mother who moved
here from Detroit to nurse and care for
her beautiful son for his last 10 months
of life. He is also survived by his sisters
Trena and Tootie, and his brothers Pete,
Kenny, and Rocky.

Hubert grew
up in Detroit and
was an avid fan
of the Motown
sound. He started
working at the
early age of 13,
but still found
time between
school and work
to dance nearly
every day of the
week. He moved
to Key West where he lived for eight years
before arriving in San Francisco in 1979.
He worked as a waiter-captain at the Blue
Fox for six years and then went to barber
school and worked at Louie’s Barber
Shop on Castro before becoming ill.

Hubert enjoyed humor and relished a
good pun. He was honest and open with
his friends and generous with his loving
spirit. Hubert’s message that “love is the
only thing bigger than anything — even
death” will always stay with us. His ad¬
vice was to “go peacefully, with love in
your heart, a smile in your soul, and
always count your blessings.” Knowing
you, Hubert, was indeed a blessing. •

Ronnie R. Cabelka

2 / 10/44 - 4/28/87

Ron Cabelka, a 13-year resident of San
Francisco, died on April 28 in Denver of
pneumocystis. He was 43 years old.

A native of Yale, Iowa, Ron was a grad¬
uate of Drake University. He was a Viet¬
nam veteran who, after his tour of duty,
lived and worked in New York City for five
years. While in New York, he was active
in various theatre groups and worked for
the American Field Service (AFS). He
moved to San Francisco in 1973 and
again became active in many local theatre
groups, including the Presidio Playhouse,
Altarena Playhouse, Capuchino Summer
Theatre and Marin Civic Light Opera.
Locally, he worked for several health
care planning organizations, as well as
the Asian .Art Museum and Foremost-
McKesson. Ron enjoyed entertaining, as
well as preparing gourmet meals for
friends.

He is survived by his father, Raymond
Cabelka, and his sister, Dolores, both of
Yale, Iowa, as well as his companion of
four years, Leigh Bean, who now resides
in Denver, Colorado.

A memorial service was held in Iowa
and an informal gathering of friends was
held in Kentfield, California. Contribu¬
tions in Ron’s memory may be made to
Project Open Hand, an organization
which provides and delivers hot meals to
AIDS patients who are housebound and
unable to prepare their own meals. We
feel this organization reflects Ron’s
generosity and endless capacity for
giving. •

Michael Gower

Michael Gower died peacefully the
evening of May 10 surrounded by his
closest friends. Michael lost his battle
with AIDS after a four-year fight.

Michael (I960-
1987), born in
New Jersey, came
to San Francisco
in the late 1970s.
Since that tirtie
he acquired many
friends who will
miss him greatly.
In spite of his
medical prob¬
lems, Michael
always had time

for others.

There will be a memorial service at
Most Holy Redeemer Church, S.F., at
3 p.m. on May 27. Donations may be
made to the S.F. AIDS Foundation Food
Bank in memory of Mike. •

Richard F. De Boer

Richard F. De Boer, 30, died Tuesday,
May 12, at the home of his parents in
Monterey, following a brief illness.

Richard was diagnosed with KS in
February and his health declined quick¬
ly. He was cared for by a wonderful
childhood friend, Kirk, whose help en¬
abled Richard to remain at his own home
in San Francisco as long as possible. Dur¬
ing the last ten days of his life, Richard
moved to Monterey and was cared for by

his family and hospice nurses.

Richard was employed as a journey¬
man clerk for 12 yeares, his most recent
position was with Lucky’s in Daly City.

Richard had a zest for life that we will
all remember. His sense of humor, cheer¬
fulness and ability to put others at ease
earned him friends wherever he went. We
can all recall times when Richard teased
us out df a bad mood or advised us on dif¬
ficulties we were experiencing. He was a
generous, warm and caring person, and
will be greatly missed.

Friends wishing to contact his family
may do so through his sister, Joan Smith,
(408) 375-0148.

Memorial contributions are suggested
to the Hospice of the Monterey Peninsula,
P.O. Box 2480, Monterey, CA 93942. •

Alfredo S. Trujillo

1/8/50 - 5/11/87

A1 passed on to his new beginning on
May 11, and fought his battle with a smile,
laugh, and great regard for all who had
touched his life.

He moved to
San Francisco in
1980, from River¬
side, CA, and
worked at Moffit
Library of UC-
Berkeley. “Cow¬
boy Al” will al¬
ways be remem¬
bered by his co¬
workers for his
genuine love,
which always in¬
cluded so many unexpected gifts and sur¬
prises.

Al will always be here in spirit with his
lover Perry and his many friends, espe¬
cially Jim.

With 23 children in his Spanish/Jewish
family, and being the youngest, he always
said, “There were 11 of each... and me.”

He had the highest regard for Kaiser
San Francisco, especially his physician,
Dr. Gherman, Peggy for caring, Melissa
<or the kind I Vs, and lots of love to Jamie
... the real “wicked witch.”

Al’s last wishes were that we all take ex¬
tra care of ourselves... because they are
only alive, as long as we are.

A Memorial Mass will be held Thurs¬
day, May 28, at Most Holy Redeemer, 100
Diamond, at 7:30 p.m. Any inquiries
should be through Perry Watson,
431-8851. •

Bruce H. Greenberg

Bruce H. Greenberg died in San Fran¬
cisco May 3. He was 44 years old. Bruce
was the beloved son of Ann Greenberg
and the late Al Greenberg, dear brother
of Phyllis Savitt, devoted friend of David
Rose, loving uncle to his nieces and
nephews.

Graveside services were held Monday,
May 4 at Hills of Eternity Cemetery, Col-
ma under the direction of Sinai Memorial
Chapel, 1501 Divisadero St., S.F., CA
94115. Contributions to the San Fran¬
cisco AIDS Foundation are preferred. •

Gary L. Seeger

Memorial services for Gary L. Seeger
were held on May 14 at Coming Home
Hospice. Gary peacefully entered his final
rest on Monday, May 11. He battled toxo¬
plasmosis valiantly for over a year. He will
be missed by all those who knew him and
loved him for the strong yet gentle man
who lived his life as a free spirit. Gary
worked as a draftsman for the Bechtel
Corporation and excelled in physical ex¬
ercise. He traveled extensively through¬
out Europe and Asia during his lifetime.

His quiet na¬
ture belied a ro¬
bust appreciation
for life and the
friends he made
in his life were
well-chosen, inti¬
mate, and genu¬
ine and he cared
little for pretense
and false values.
He was a popu¬
lar photographic
subject for many years and he blessed all
of his friends with an exceptional wit and
a stunning physical beauty. He is survived
by his brothers Bob Seeger of Spokane,
WA and Bill Seeger of Lakewood, CA and
their wives Kathleen and Cathy; a sister,
Joan Smith and her husband Greg pf
Redondo Beach, CA and an aunt, Erma
Wademan of Southgate, CA.

Gary will be missed by many Bay Area
friends and admirers, especially Robert
Scott, Don Bach, Don Abare, Gary Bab¬
cock and Tom Longland. Gary’s family
and friends wish to extend heartfelt
thanks to the Shanti Project and to Com¬
ing Home Hospice for their expressions
of love and support. •

Edward B. Kopp

Former Palm Springs hotel owner Brad
Kopp was claimed by AIDS on March 30
at UCSD Medical Center. His ashes have
been scattered at sea and there were no
survivors. He was believed to be in his
mid-50s.

When Kopp moved to San Diego last
summer for medical treatment, he worked
briefly for F Street Corporation as office
manager at The Scene, then left when the
paper was sold to new owners. He made
a final trip to Palm Springs on Feb. 7 for
a special party in his honor at Michael’s
Inn so he could bid farewell to his many
friends in the desert.

After receiving a BS degree in adver¬
tising and copywriting at Woodbury Col¬
lege in 1950, Kopp lived in the Bay Area
until 1961, working for Oil Terminals Co.
and Crowley Launch & Tugboat Co. in
San Francisco; Palo Alto Mutual Savings
& Loan; Pillsbury Flour Co. in San Mateo
and Holbrook Merrill Co. in Sunnyvale,
all in accounting and managerial posi¬
tions. He then moved to Oxford, Ohio for
further studies and graduated from
Miami University in 1963 with a BS in
comprehensive business education.
Returning to California, he became head
of the business department and a teacher
of offset lithography for the Anaheim
Union High School District until 1974
when he moved back to Northern Califor¬
nia, first as a co-owner and buyer at
Adventurous Cargo Ltd. —- an importer
of high fashion clothing in San Mateo —
then co-owner of a boutique on Cannery
Row in Monterey. •

John P. Collins

John P. Collins, 43, a Paulist priest,
died at Old St. Mary’s Church on Friday
of bone cancer.

Fr. Collins celebrated the Dignity
Christmas Midnight Mass at the Castro
Theater last December. He was a former
board member of Dignity, and a past
president of Coming Home Hospice.

A native of
Allentown, PA, Fr.
Collins was a
graduate of La
Salle College,
Philadelphia. He
received a mas¬
ter’s degree in
theology from St.

. i Paul’s College in
% ^^shington, D.C.
T |||i and a doctorate in
human sexuality
from the Institute for Advanced Study of
Human Sexuality in San Francisco.

He was ordained in 1974, and served
in campus ministry at the University of
California in Berkeley, and at Ohio State
University in Columbus before coming to
San Francisco in 1980, where he taught
psychology and sexuality at St. Rose
Academy for six years. In 1986-1987, he
was Research Scholar at Chulalongkorn
University in Bangkok, Thailand.

A Mass of the Resurrection will be
celebrated at Old St. Mary’s Church at
California and Grant on Wednesday, May
20 at 7:30 p.m. Memorial gifts to the
Dignity AIDS/ARC Ministry are pre¬
ferred. •

Darrell C. Worley

2/28/58 - 5/8/87
Darrell left to join Timmy Southwick
and Paul La Marca and all of our depart¬
ed brothers and sisters on the afternoon
of May 8. He was surrounded by loving
friends and family during his last weeks.

We would like
to thank Drs.
Michael Pierce
and Lowell
Young, nurses
Nonie, Ron,
Michael, David,
and the entire
ICU staff of
Pacific Presby¬
terian Medical
Center for mak¬
ing Darrell as
comfortable as they could during his last
days.

A memorial service was held at the
showroom of Plant Design, where Darrell
worked and enjoyed special friendships
with everyone there as well as his clients.
We heard poetry, anecdotes, Joni Mitch¬
ell, and Joan Armatrading. Most impor¬
tantly to Darrell, there were wonderfully
vibrant plants and flowers everywhere,
and the evening was punctuated with
laughter and joy.

The celebration of life continues, dear
Darrell. We will miss your wit, style, and
laughter.

Rob, Cindy, Grant, Thomas, Michael,
Rose, Jennifer, Karen, Kitra, Rick, Mary,
Anne, Martha, Neil, Bill, Gary •

(Continued on page 23 )

BAY AREA REPORTER MAY 21. 1987 PAGE 20

BAY AREA REPORTER

GREATER BAY NEWS

StanfonI Activists Protest Campus Homophobia

'We Demand To Celebrate Our Identity Instead of Hiding It'

by Gerard Koskovich

Stanford University drew
strong criticism from lesbi¬
an and gay organizers as the
school celebrated its corner¬
stone centennial last week.
Joining a rally against rac¬
ism on Thursday, May 14, an
ad hoc group of student ac¬
tivists called on administra¬
tors to adopt a detailed plan
for confronting “institution¬
alized homophobia and sex¬
ism” on campus.

“Gays and lesbians in the stu¬
dent body, faculty, and staff are
constantly subject to fear of ha¬
rassment, discrimination, and
ridicule,” undergraduate lesbian
activist Barb Voss told an esti¬
mated 300 people in Stanford’s
White Plaza. “We demand that
Stanford ... create an atmo¬
sphere in which we can celebrate
our identity instead of hiding it.”

A coalition of campus minor¬

ity groups organized the May 14
“Rainbow Centennial” protest
to demand greater access to the
university for black, Hispanic,
Asian American, and Native
American students. The rally
took place shortly before the of¬
ficial convocation marking the
one hundredth anniversary of the
laying of Stanford’s cornerstone.

Representing an ad hoc group
of feminist, lesbian and gay stu¬

dent activists, Voss expressed
“full support for the demands
issued in the Rainbow Agenda”
regarding racial issues. She went
on to compare anti-gay discrimi¬
nation to the discrimination
faced by racial minorities.

“Gays and lesbians are often
called an invisible minority, be¬
cause there is no physical trait
which clearly sets us apart from
the rest of the population, yet in¬

stead of sheltering us from dis¬
crimination, this often heightens
(anti-gay discrimination),” Voss
said.

Following the rally, protesters
marched to Stanford’s historic
Inner Quadrangle, where an esti¬
mated 8,000 people gathered for
centennial speeches by universi¬
ty president Donald Kennedy,
United States Secretary of State

(Continued on next page)

The Empire Is Dead;
Long Live The Empire

TERTIUM QUID
APPELLATION

(A "Phoenix” Nose?)

The Alameda County Imperial
Empire is now dissolved. In its
place is a “new” organization.
Imperial Star Empire. All neces¬
sary papers were filed with state
and federal agencies on Tuesday,
May 12.

The reason behind this abrupt
alteration is simple and yet so
complex — TAXES! Upon thor¬
ough investigation by the most
recent privy council it was dis¬
covered that ACIE’s status with
governmental agencies was sus¬
pended as of 1983 and was dis¬
allowed in 1984. On Sept. 4,1984,
the state withdrew the former
ACIE’s non-profit status number.

The taxes were paid for 1985
(with penalty and interest), and
are up-to-date as of April 1987,
but litigation is still pending for
previous years. All records of the
former ACIE are in the hands of
a tax lawyer and all ACIE assets
are frozen. There was approxi¬
mately $2,500 in ACIE’s check¬
ing account.

An announcement confirming
this situation was made at a gen¬
eral assembly meeting on Tues¬
day, May 19, at Paradise. It was
emphasized that no fingers of
blame are being pointed at any
particular reign — especially the
most current. It’s just a fact that
the state has no records of any
tax filing for the two years men¬
tioned.

The totally “new” organiza¬
tion, Imperial Star Empire (ISE)
is, basically, starting from scratch
and has no treasury at this point.
Nothing affiliated with the de¬
funct ACIE can or will be used in
connection with the new empire.
This includes the monthly news¬
letter (the most recent one which
couldn’t be mailed out contained
financial statements from EBAF
and In Memory Fund), post¬
poned functions bearing the
name of ACIE, and any and all
minutes and correspondence
from ACIE’s conception in 1980.
From September 1986 to May 11,
1987, over $14,000 was donated
to ACIE charities. 'The tax la^^er
is handling the legal ramifica¬
tions of this.

Chuck and Carlos personally
paid the fees ($227) to register
and start proceedings with state
and federal agencies for ISE,
which has a new state operating
number.

Queries about the new organi¬
zation may be directed to Bobby
Ray Leach, Ralph Bittle, Hank
Chavez, or Carlos Vargas, Any
correspondence to ISE must be
sent to 555 Merle Court, San
Leandro, CA 94577.

It boils down to this: Imperial
Star Empire is starting all over.
The faces are the same; only the
name has been changed. Look for
several fundraisers in the near
future to get ISE on its feet.

ALLA-PODRIDA

(A Ragout Nose)

Auricular Affairs Department:
There was a spaghetti feed at
Bella Napoli for the Oakland
Parade Contingent. I guess it was
“in-house advertising” only. No
details available, except that the
spaghetti was hotter than the
wildest chili!

Semi-secret, also, was the cake
auction and Marilyn Monroe
calendar raffle — how many
more of those are left? — at Town
& Country on Saturday, May 16.
A “less than anticipated” crowd
did manage, however, to raise
$656 for OPC.

Cum Multis Aliis Department:

‘ ‘And, one more thing I forgot to
mention in my interview!” ap¬
pealed George. “Could you put
in your column that I’d like to see
a financial report from Adopt-A-
House, which I understand is now
called Sheppard House?” Hoo
boy, why not? George will be out
of town for two weeks, visiting his
parents. Will B.J. be kicking up
his heels — even more than

usual? , ,

(Continued on next page)

Armed Robbers Hit
Russian River Bar

by Will Snyder

Two armed thieves calmly walked into a Guemeville gay bar
on Sunday, May 17, and walked away with $7,200. During the
robbery of the Bayou, they threatened murder and reprisal
for the firings of former employees a few months ago.

One man had a revolver and the other a sawed-off shotgun.
They entered the Bayou shortly before a bartender’s shift
change at 12 noon. While Bayou manager Ray Allen counted
weekend receipts, he carried on a phone conversation with
owner Cal Vos.

Then, the phone lines went
dead. What Allen hadn’t realized
is that the two seemingly inno¬
cent customers sipping a beer
and a Coke had slipped outside
and cut the phone wires. When
they re-entered the bar, they
began their reign of anti-gay
terror.

“They said, ‘Get on the floor,
you fucking faggots,”’ related
Allen, who added that they used
crude plastic to tie up the hands
of him, bartender Rod Campbell
and owner Vos (who had come to
the bar by that time) behind their
backs. The two thieves took
Campbell and Vos to the bath-

(Continued on next page)

BAY AREA REPORTER MAY 21. 1987 PAGE 21

Nez Pas

I Continued from previous page)

★ ★ ★

Big Mama’s Sunday Cabaret
continues this month. On May
24, enjoy E.C. Scott and her
band. On May 31, the featured
entertainer will be Katibell Col¬
lins, with special guests. Cabaret
show times are 4 p.m., and there
is never a cover charge at Big
Mama’s.

Patience is certainly a virtue!
Without my asking. Big Chuck
presented to me a duplicate of a
money order for $746, made out
to General Foundation for Medi¬
cine (AIDS division). It was dated
April 25. The proceeds from
Pierre’s auction have finally been
disbursed.

★ ★ ★

Yes, it’s true. Ricky is no long¬
er at Revol. No, no one there

knows his whereabouts. Many
wished that they did!

Sunday, May 31, is the 1987
Lake Merritt Stride and Stroll. It
is an event to raise money for
organizations responding to
the AIDS crisis, and all money
earned goes to the AIDS Project
of the East Bay and San Francis¬
co AIDS Foundation. Runners,
walkers, other movers and wheel¬
chair participants are welcome in
this 3.2-mile event. Registration
fee is $10 (mail to Lake Merritt
Stride & Stroll, do R. Newmann,
3719 Emerson Street #1, Oak¬
land, CA 94610). There will be
free t-shirts to the first 300 par¬
ticipants.

NOWISE REVERTING
NIDIFICATION

(A "Where Am I?" Nose)

Who was it, Thomas Mann,
Thomas Wolfe, Thomas Thumb?,
who said, “You can’t go home
again”? Regardless,'that state¬
ment really rang true to me on
Mother’s Day weekend.

My spouse and I sojourned to

my old stomping grounds to cele¬
brate that holiday with my folks.
I had previously requested that
we go out for Chinese food on
Saturday night — the kind of
Chinese food I grew up with in
my hometown’s Chinatown sec¬
tion, which was really quite large.
I specifically asked if Mama’s
Place was still open. It was, but
had moved to another location.

Mama’s Place was the kind of
hole in the wall that served ab¬
solutely the best chow mein in
the world. The kitchen was ex¬
posed in the middle of the res¬
taurant, and one could watch all
the cooks sweating into their
woks as they prepared the dishes
from a minimal menu — you
want chow mein you get noodles;
you want chop suey you get rice.

Henry was the overseer of the
kitchen and Mama was the over¬
seer of the booths (the kind with
high walls, a curtain over the
door, and bare tables with soy
sauce and mustard in containers)
and also over Henry. Hardly an
evening went by that Mama and
Henry didn’t get into some kind

of tiff — in Chinese, of course —
with all the customers cheering
them on.

Well, the old Mama’s Place is
gone. Mama and Henry are gone.
The exposed kitchen with sweat¬
ing cooks is gone. The high-
walled booths with curtains over
the doors are gone. The family
tiffs are gone. The new place is
semi-elegant. The tables have
table cloths and napkins. The
waitresses are now uniformed.
The prices are a lot higher. The
Chinatown is no more (due to ur¬
ban renewal that didn’t quite get
finished). The world’s best chow
mein, unfortunately, also is gone.

Two residences in which I grew
up somehow shrunk and changed
appearances. A third “home”
wasn’t even there! An apartment
complex was in its stead. Chap¬
man’s Trading Post was now a
used car lot, as was Sam Zall’s
Warehouse — where all of us kids
used to get our penny ball gums.
The ball gums have shrunk, too.

My solid brick high school is
still standing, but portions are

boarded up and unused. The en¬
tire campus somehow diminished
in size. The once huge front lawn
was now just a shadow of its for¬
mer self. How can a lawn shrink?

The downtown section now has
one-way streets. The old drug
store (in which I worked all
through high school) is now va¬
cant; the big hotel is crumbling.
My relatives’ listings in the
phone book have been greatly
reduced — we used to occupy
almost one full column. The lake
in the middle of town is still there,
but it too looks so tiny.

Yes, “home” certainly had
changed, but we had a good time
anyway. My family is like that. I
did manage to give Ethel — you
do remember Ethel, don’t you?
— a call before we left to come
back home ... to my new home.

★ ★ ★

If two cars are approaching
each other on an otherwise
deserted road, somehow they will
meet in the middle of a narrow
bridge! I still can smile. Love,
Nez •

San Jose Holds Candlelight
Memorial for AIDS

The front steps of San Jose’s City Hall will be the site for
a Candlelight Memorial in support of people with AIDS on
Memorial Day evening, Monday, May 25, from 8 to 9 p.m.
According to Robert Sorenson, executive dreictor of the Aris
Project, the Candlelight Memorial will be part of the Fourth
International Candlelight Memorial in support of people with

AIDS.

The International Candlelight
Memorial will be held in over 100
cities on four continents. The
memorials are organized interna¬
tionally by Mobilization Against
AIDS, a San Francisco-based or¬
ganization which works to lobby
all levels of government and the
medical establishment to cause a
more effective effort in the war
against AIDS.

“The San Jose Memorial will
be a time for all of us to
acknowledge each other as in¬
dividuals who are fighting this
battle and to keep ourselves
mindful that AIDS is a growing
problem,” stated Sorenson.

He indicated the event will

begin at 8 p.m. and will last about
an hour. The program will in¬
clude speakers and singing. A
wreath of wild flowers will be left
in front of City Hall to com¬
memorate and celebrate the lives
that have been lost to AIDS. The
public is invited to attend. Those
attending the Candlelight
Memorial are asked to bring a
candle to light and hold during
the program. San Jose City Hall
is located at 801 North First
Street.

Further information concern¬
ing the San Jose AIDS Candle¬
light Memorial is available from
the Aris Project office at (408)
370-3272. •

Stanford

(Continued from previous page)

George Shultz, and other digni¬
taries. Carrying black balloons to
show support for the minority
students’ demands, the marchers
filled a large block of seats near
the grandstand.

COMBAT SEXISM

A group of students organized
by Voss distributed several hun¬
dred lavendar handbills to the
crowd outlining a “preliminary
agenda of immediate action
which must be taken by the uni¬
versity to begin to combat sexism
and anti-gay/lesbian discrimina¬
tion.” According Jo the handbill,
the Stanford adminstration
should take the following actions:

• Provide funding for the
Stanford Women’s Center and
permanently designate the sec¬
ond floor of the Old Firehouse on
Campus as a gay and lesbian
community center. (The Gay and
Lesbian Alliance at Stanford has
used the space for 14 years, but
must reapply annually to the
Dean of Students office for ap¬
proval.)

• Grant married-student hous¬
ing privileges to lesbian and gay
couples. (A lesbian couple was
refused married-student housing
about two years ago, according to
a newspaper report at the time.)

• Establish formal procedures
for grievances under the policy of
nondiscrimination on the basis of
sexual orientation that Stanford
adopted last year.

• Extend the nondiscrimina¬
tion policy to the Stanford Career
Planning and Placement Center,
which Stanford declared exempt
earlier this year. (The Placement
Center is presently required to
ban only those employers who
“illegally discriminate,” thereby
permitting use by the military,
the Central Intelligence Agency,

Bayou

(Continued from previous page)

room and made them lie face
down on the floor. Allen was
taken into the business office
where he watched one of the
thieves open up the safe and
remove the money.

Allen said the money wasn’t all
that was taken. “I wear a lot of
jewelry,” he said. “They looked
at a ring I had on that doesn’t
come off that easily and said I
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• Conduct “a comprehensive
study on gay and lesbian life at
Stanford (to identify) specific
areas which need further work.”

• Increase the enrollment of
women, recruit a greater percent¬
age of women faculty, and ap¬
prove degree-granting status for
the Program in Feminist Studies.

While the Stanford adminstra¬
tion had no immediate response
to the activists’ demands, the
reaction from the non-gay ethnic
minority students who organized
the “Rainbow Centennial” pro¬
test was generally favorable, ac¬
cording to Voss,

“I wasn’t sure how my remarks
would be taken at the rally, but
the response was very positive,”
Voss told Bay Area Reporter.
“The concerns of the gay and les¬
bian community were received
warmly. It made me feel that peo¬
ple were open to working with
us.”

Voss said that she also had
reservations about responses to
the demands from the Gay and
Lesbian Alliance at Stanford
(GLAS). Formerly a stronghold of
direct political activism, GLAS
has increasingly moved in the
past two years toward emphasiz¬
ing its role as a community
center and social support net¬
work.

According to sophomore Joyce
Adams, acting president of
GLAS, the group did not formal¬
ly endorse the “Rainbow Centen¬
nial” demands regarding ethnic
minorities or the full list of
demands outlined by Voss’s
group.

“GLAS, as an organization,
usually focuses specifically on
issues of concern to the gay and
lesbian community. Our steering
committee of course approves of
the specific agenda items within
those limits,” Adams said.

“I’m sure many individual

they’d cut my finger off,”

According to Allen, when the
two men left, they said, “This is
compliments of your former em¬
ployees.” Allen added that one of
the thieves said, “You fucking
faggots killed my brother and
you’re going to get it.”

Allen said the first comment
may have been reference to an
incident which happened when
he first took over as manager of
the Bayou a few months ago. “I
took over the management of the
bar as a favor a few months be¬
fore,” said Allen. “At that time we
felt we had to dismiss all of the

members of GLAS also support
the broader goals of the ‘Rain¬
bow Agenda,’ but we haven’t
taken an official position as an
organization,” she added.

SAFETY AND SUPPORT

Voss said she respects the posi¬
tion of the GLAS Steering Com¬
mittee as one of reasonable cau¬
tion. “Many people who are just
coming out — and that’s most
college-age gay people — feel the
need for a safe space,” she ex¬
plained. “They’re very con¬
cerned about any political de¬
mands that would open them up
to attack. We’re trying to build a
community on campus and we
need GLAS to provide that atmo¬
sphere of safety and support.”

GLAS was itself included in
the official Stanford Cornerstone
Centennial program, holding a
university-sanctioned open house
on Friday, May 15, alongside six
academic departments and the
Stanford Daily.

“I don’t think that there are
many other universities that
would include the gay and les¬
bian community in a celebration
like the centennial,’ ’ said Adams.
“It suggests that it is okay to be
gay or lesbian at Stanford, and
that’s an important statement to
make.”

Graduate student Ilane Ma¬
thews, a member of the GLAS
Steering Committee who took
part in the May 14 protest, add¬
ed that the administration de¬
served praise for including the
GLAS open house in the centen¬
nial celebration, but that sub¬
stantive reform is still required to
make Stanford a more comfort¬
able place for lesbians and gay
men.

“The administration likes to
give us the appearance of re¬
spect,” Mathews explained. “But
when it comes to taking real ac¬
tion and instituting strong poli¬
cies, that’s another question al¬
together.” •

employees and clear the air, start
fresh.”

Allen described the two men as
“clean-cut” and both either in
their late 20s or early 30s. Both
were slim and between 5'9" and
6 feet tall. One wore a blue suit
and the other army fatigues.

One apparently is familiar
with or is a resident of Guerne¬
ville. After an artist from the Rus¬
sian River News weekly news¬
paper drew a sketch of one of the
men, a street photographer fa¬
miliar with Guerneville produced
a picture he had taken of the
man. •

BAY AREA REPORTER MAY 21, 1987 PAGE 22

Couples

(Continued from page 1)

Charged with murder, Sprad^
lin was acquitted by a jury and
eventually served only eighteen
months in jail for manslaughter.

When Crabtree tried to bring
a civil suit against Spradlin, he
was dealt yet another blow by the
legal system. A judge in Modesto
ruled that Crabtree was not en¬
titled to sue for the shock that he
had suffered or the companion¬
ship that he had lost as a result
of Allen’s murder. According to
the judge, the ten years that Crab¬
tree and Allen had spent in a lov¬
ing and monogamous relation¬
ship did not constitute the type
of “socially acceptable” relation¬
ship that the law would recognize.

Crabtree’s case is now on ap¬
peal, and in this and two other
cases, lawyers across California
are attempting to chip away at the
denial of equal rights to unmar¬
ried individuals. Given the new
Deukmejian dominated state
Supreme Court, however, legal
observers are skeptical about the
chances of success.

The most widely publicized of
the three cases involves an un¬
married heterosexual couple,
Richard Elden and Linda Ebling.
In December 1982, Ebling was
thrown from her car when it was
struck by a car driven by Robert
Sheldon. Ebling later died from
her injuries, and Elden sued
Sheldon for loss of companion¬
ship and emotional distress.

As in Crabtree’s case, the suit
was dismissed by a judge who rul¬
ed that only married people were
entitled to sue for these damages.
The case was recently heard by
the California Supreme Court
and a decision is expected within
the next few months.

A third case involves an anti¬
gay assault by a San Francisco
Muni driver. In that incident, the
driver of a 19-Polk bus attacked
and injured Robert Ervin, a pas¬
senger on the bus, in the pres¬
ence of Ervin’s lover, Gary Coon.
Ervin recovered from his injuries
after surgery, but Coon sued the
driver for the emotional distress
he suffered as a result of witness¬
ing the assault.

Again, the trial judge threw
the case out because it involved
an unmarried couple. The case is
now before the state Appellate
Court in San Francisco.

LOSS OF CONSORTIUM

Both Elden and Crabtree are
suing for loss of consortium, a
legal term for the loss of compa¬
nionship, sexual relations and
love which results when a per¬
son’s partner is killed or serious¬
ly injured. While lawsuits of this
sort have been allowed since the
early 17th Century, U.S. courts
seem uncertain about the scope
of the law’s protection.

Until 1974, only a husband
could sue for loss of consortium
in California. Although a wife’s
right to sue is now firmly settled,
only one California court to date
has allowed an unmarried indi¬
vidual to sue under this law.

Leonard Graff, legal director of
National Gay Rights Advocates,
characterized the reluctance of
the courts to extend the protec¬
tion of the law to unmarried in¬
dividuals as absurd. According to
Graff, “loss of consortium is sup¬
posed to compensate a person for
the loss of love and companion¬
ship, and there’s nothing about a
marriage certificate that makes
a relationship more loving.

Under the current state of the
law, he noted, “you can have a
situation where someone who’s
been married for a week will be
allowed to sue while someone like

Crabtree, who lived with his lover
for ten years, will have his suit
thrown out of court.”

Graff also pointed out the ab¬
surdity of denying unmarried gay
people the right to sue at a time
when homosexual marriages are
prohibited in every state. “Par¬
ticularly in the middle of the
AIDS epidemic,” he said, “the
courts should be validating long
term relationships, not dismiss¬
ing them as legally insignifi¬
cant.”

Dave Medlin, Crabtree’s attor¬
ney, agreed that extending the
right to sue for loss of consortium
to unmarried individuals was the
next logical step in the evolution
of the law.

Loss of consortium, Medlin ex¬
plained, is a common law cause
of action. According to Medlin,
that means that there are no
statutes governing the law in this
area and that judges are free to
expand the law’s coverage as
society changes.

“Today, whether judges like it
or not, there are going to be plen¬
ty of instances where two men are
going to have a deep and loving
relationship,” he said, “and the
courts have got to eventually face
up to that.”

An amicus brief filed in Crab¬
tree’s case by National Gay
Rights Advocates supports Med-
lin’s argument. According to the
studies cited in that brief, there
are approximately five million
gay male domestic partnerships
nationwide, and in California
alone, more than 500,000 gay
men are believed to be living as
couples.

“The whole issue here,”
Medlin continued, “should be
whether Crabtree’s relationship
with Allen was significant
enough that he suffered harm
when his murdered lover died in
his arms.” Reflecting on the ten
years the couple had spent
together, he concluded, “take my
word for it, Jim Crabtree suf¬
fered.”

EMOTIONAL DISTRESS

In all three cases, the in¬
dividuals involved are also suing
for the emotional distress they
suffered from seeing their lovers
injured or killed. The attorneys
involved believe that these suits
are on solid legal ground.

According to Mike German,
the attorney representing Gary
Coon, under California law a per¬
son can recover for the emotional
distress he suffered if he had a
close relationship with the victim
of the assaault and if the assail¬
ant could have foreseen the ex¬
istence of that close relationship.
In the past, California courts
have held that the relationship

(Continued from page 20)

Julian “Jay” Carter

12/2/63 - 5A5/87
My long-time friend Jay died May 15
at Franklin Hospiui of AIDS. He lived
in San Francisco
over five years.

1 would like to
thank those who
helped take care
of him.

Jay touched
the lives of ail
who knew him
and will live in
our hearts for¬
ever. With all his
good nature of humor and own brand of
Southern manners, he will always live in
our memories. •

Rob Pambid

In last week’s B.A.R., Rob’s surviving
lover should have been printed as Don
Alday, not Don Aidaz. Rob is also sur¬
vived by his mother, Grace Pambid;
father, Rodolfo Pambid; and brothers
Chris, Larry, Marc and Dean Pambid. #

Leonard Graff

(Photo: Scott Martin)

between an uncle and nephew, a
grandmother and grandchild,
and a foster parent and foster
child were sufficiently close and
foreseeable to allow a suit for
emotional distress.

German believes that the pre¬
sent cases depend on whether the
courts believe that a long term
loving relationship between two
men is possible. Noting that in
Coon’s case, “the assault took
place in the city with the heaviest
gay population in the country
and on a bus line that goes
through one of the gayest
neighborhoods,” he expressed
optimism about his chances of
prevailing on appeal.

National Gay Rights Advocates
went one step further, arguing

that in today’s society, the
possibility of a stable and signifi¬
cant gay relationship is.
“foreseeable” anywhere in Cal¬
ifornia.

“The question isn’t whether
the relationship was acceptable,”
they wrote in their brief in the
Crabtree case, “it’s simply
whether it was foreseeable.” And,
they concluded, “the large and
growing number of unmarried
long term lesbian and gay male
domestic partnerships in Califor¬
nia make it foreseeable that for
every adult man and woman
there may exist a same-gender
domestic partner.”

HOSTILE LEGAL CLIMATE

Despite their faith in the
soundness of their legal argu¬
ments, however, neither Graff nor
Medlin were overly optimistic
about prevailing in California’s
current legal climate. “The
courts are supposed to be blind
to social prejudice,” said Medlin,
“but in Crabtree’s case I think
the judge got his personal views
on morality mixed up with his
duty to apply the law objectively.”

There is, he conceded, no
guarantee that judges in the
higher courts will be any better
at dispensing unbiased justice.
“The courts seem to think that
they’re encouraging homosex¬
uality if they let fags sue just be¬
cause their lovers got their
throats slit,” he said bitterly.

Graff shared Medlin’s concern
about homophobia in the courts.

“We are absolutely right in our
interpretation of the law,” he
stated, “but 1 can’t be very op¬
timistic given the new Supreme
Court.”

Claiming that the recent elec¬
tion replaced “a very intelligent
court with a reactionary one,”
Graff expressed fear that some of
the new justices “are ideologues
who will vote in line with what
they see as their conservative
mandate instead of in line with
what logic and fairness require.”

Given the likelihood of an un¬
favorable ruling in the Supreme
Court, both Medlin and Graff
were hesitant about taking any
cases involving gay rights before
that court.

“One of the things you’ve got
to consider,” according to Med¬
lin, “is whether it’s better to
make no law instead of bad law.”
A Supreme Court decision deny¬
ing gay people the right to sue for
loss of consortium or emotional
distress would be binding on all
California courts and would be
difficult to overturn in the future.

If the Supreme Court rules
against unmarried heterosexuals
in Elden’s case, lawyers could still
argue that unmarried gays
should be able to sue since
homosexuals do not have the op¬
tion of marrying.

According to Graff, however,
“if the Supreme Court rules
against Elden, it might be better
to wait for another day—or year
—when we have a more liberal
court.” •

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O'Farrell St., S.F., 8:30 PM, $10. One night only. Call
885-0750 for tickets.

• The Blazing Redheads: music. Oasis, 2451 Harrison
St., S.F., 9 PM, free.

• Laurie Bushman and Sandy Van: comedy cabaret,
Baybrick Inn, 1190 Folsom St., S.F., 8-10 PM, free.

• Sandy Brassard: music, Artemis Cafe, 1199 Valen¬
cia St., S.F., 8 PM, $4. Classical, flamenco, pop, and folk.

• Strictly A Formality: stage performance. The Studio
at Theatre Rhinoceros, 2926 16th St., S.F., 8:30 PM,
$8. A drama of tense confrontation produced and di¬
rected by Keno Rider. Call 861-5079 for tickets.

• Threepenny Opera: stage performance. River Rep¬
ertory Theater, Jenner Playhouse, Hwy 1, 20 minutes
west of Guerneville via 116, 8 PM, $7. Call (707)
865-2905 for more information.

• What's A Mother To Do?: stage performance, 2926
16th St., S.F., 8 PM, $9-$12. Matchmaking gone awry
in the condominiums of Ft. Lauderdale, presented by
Theatre Rhinoceros; written by Michael Zimmerman,
directed by Steven Bloom. Call 861-5079 for tickets and
reservations.

• The Inner Circle: stage performance. Zephyr Theatre,
25 Van Ness, S.F., 8 PM, $8. The New Conservatory
Children's Theatre Company in an AIDS prevention play
for teens.

• Oh, Coward!: musical comedy based on the words
and music of Noel Coward, The City Cabaret, 401
Mason St. (at Geary), S.F., 10 PM, $14. Call 441-RSVP.

• Game Night: Sisterspirit Coffeehouse, 1040 Park
Ave., San Jose, games start 8 PM, $1-$3 sliding scale.
Play your own or ours.

• Emergence/San Francisco: support group for Chris¬
tian Scientists, 7:30 PM. Call 485-1881 for more infor¬
mation.

• Growing American Youth Group: for gays and les¬
bians 21 or younger, Diablo Valley Metropolitan Com¬
munity Church, 2253 Concord Blvd., Concord. Call
372-9014 or 827-2960 for more information.

• Vision play: circle of healing and renewal using
visualization and deep trance work, Quan Yin Acupunc¬
ture Center, 513 Valencia St, S.F., 8 PM, $5-$15 sliding
scale. Led by Van Ault, certified hypnotherapist. Call
864-1362 for more information.

• Spiritmenders: giving and receiving kindred spirits,
Spiritmenders Community Center, 2141 Mission St.,
#203 (between 17th and 18th Sts.), 5-7 PM. For men¬
tal health clients, previous or present. Call 552-4910 for
details.

• Women's Drop-In Space: conversation and caring,
1615 Polk St., upstairs, S.F., 7-9 PM, every Friday.

• Frank Banks: sing-a-long piano, Belden 22,22 Belden
Place, S.F., 5:45-8 PM.

• SF Macrobiotic Network: community dinner, Zen
Center Guest House, 273 Page St., S.F., 6:30 PM, $8.
Call 647-3347 to make a reservation. Free lyengar-style
Yoga class precedes the dinner at 5 PM.

SATURDAY 23

• Monica Grant: music, Artemis Cafe, 1199 Valencia
St, S.F., 8 PM, $4.

• Strictly A Formality: stage performance (see Friday
listing for details).

• What's A Mother To Do?: stage performance (see Fri¬
day listing for details).

• The Inner Circle: stage performance (see Friday
listing for details).

• Threepenny Opera: stage performance (see Friday
listing for details).

• Different Spokes: Marin Headlands ride. Meet at
McLaren Lodge in Golden Gate Park at 11 AM for a
leisurely ride across the Golden Gate Bridge to the Marin
shoreline. Call 387-7514 for more information.

• EastBay FrontRunners: Redwood Park run. Take 1-80
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for more information.

• Girth and Mirth Club: annual fundraising auction,
3744 16th St., No. 3, S.F., 8 PM, potiuck. Call 820-
2597 or 552-1143 for more information.

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information.

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• Men Seeking Relationships: workshop, MCC
building, 150 Eureka St., S.F., 8-10 PM, free. Call
343-0839 or 552-2974 for more information. Spon¬
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• Diablo Valley MCC: men's social group, 6:30 PM.
Call 827-2960 or 825-9054 for more information.

• Sweet Inspiration: music. Sweet Inspiration, 2239
Market St., S.F., all afternoon, free. Call 621-8664 for
more information. Sunday also.

• Problem Solving: support group. Call 558-8454 for
more information.

• Kinship; support group for lesbian and gay Seventh-
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SUNDAY 24

• 50 Golden Gate Years; extravaganza. Galleria, 2
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• San Francisco Hiking Club: Golden Gate Bridge walk.
Meet at Harvey Milk Plaza at 6 AM to take Muni to the
coast. Hike goes along the coastal trail to the bridge to
cross among the throngs. Return trip includes a stop at
Bill's Place on Clement for lunch.

• Reardon & Munsen With Leah Korican: Songs for
Lovers & Poems for Lunatics, Baybrick Inn, 1190 Folsom
St., S.F., 5:30-8:30 PM, $5.

• Orchestra Liberacion: music, El Rio, 3158 Mission
St., S.F., 4-8 PM. Salsa.

• Brown on Brown: Black Lesbian Erotica: Mary
Midgett will read from her book, signing to follow, Walt
Whitman Bookshop, 2319 Market St., S.F., 8 PM, $3.

• The Inner Circle: stage performance, 3 PM (see Fri¬
day listing for details).

• Strictly A Formality: stage performance (see Friday
listing for details).

• What's A Mother To Do?: stage performance (see Fri¬
day listing for details).

• SF Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day Parade and Celebra¬
tion Committee: Texas barbeque and beer bust fund¬
raiser, Turf Club, 22517 Mission St., Hayward, 4-8 PM,
$5 in advance, $7 at the door.

• Variety Show: singing, dancing, comedy, and imper¬
sonation, Bench and Bar, 120 11th St., Oakland, 10 PM,
free.

• San Francisco FrontRunners: Walnut Creek run,
potiuck brunch to follow. Meet at the northeast corner
of Market and Church sts. at 9 AM, Call 647-3227 or
337-8704 for more information.

• MCC San Francisco: Pat Bond as Gertrude Stein, 150
Eureka St., S.F., 7 PM. Worship and communion serv¬
ice at 10:30 AM. Childcare and signing provided at
morning service. Call 863-4434 for more information.

• Aerobics: non-competitive, no-contact workout. Call
775-2348 for more information.

• New Life MCC: worship and communion service,
1823 9th St., Berkeley, 5 PM. Call 843-9355 for more
information.

• Calvary MCC: worship service, 5 PM. Call 368-0188
for more information.

• MCC of the Redwoods: worship and communion
service, Olive and Throckmorton Sts., Mill Valley,
10:45 AM. Call 388-2315 for more information.

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• Latter-Day Saints: sacrament meeting for lesbians
and gays and their friends, Sacramento Lambda Com¬
munity Center, 1931 L St, Sacramento, 1 PM. Con¬
ducted by the Sacramento Family of the Restoration
Church of Jesus Christ. Call (916) 447-5755 for more
information.

• St. Mark's Lutheran Church: services, 1111 O'Far¬
rell (at Gough), S.F., communion at 8:30 AM and 11 AM.
Call 928-7770 for details.

. • Affirmation-Gay and Lesbian Mormons: meeting and
services. Call 641-4554 for recorded message which
details the meetings and socials.

^ • LeJazz Hot: cabaret Black Rose, 335 Jones St., S.F.,

A™ 9 PM, 11 PM, $2.

'• Slightly Younger Lesbians & Gays: support group,
^ Billy de Frank Lesbian and Gay Community Center, 86

Keyes St., San Jose, 1-3 PM.

/ A • Golden Gate MCC: Sunday worship services, 48

A Belcher St. (between 14th St. and Duboce), S.F.,

12:30 PM, 7 PM. Call 474-4848 for details.

• Men's Clinic: free and confidential VD testing and
treatment for gonorrhea, syphilis, NGU, scabies, lice,

"C venereal warts, etc. Counseling and referrals for men
with AIDS/ARC concerns, open to all Bay Area gay men,
sponsored by the Gay Men's Health Collective, 2339
Durant Ave., Berkeley, 7-9 PM. Call 644-0425 for more
information.

• Women's Radio Hour: on KKUP (91.5) in San Jose,
11 AM-2 PM. Women's music, interviews, and commu¬
nity calendar.

• Holy Trinity Church: meets at the Billy DeFrank Com¬
munity Center, 1040 Park Ave., San Jose, 10 AM to
noon.

MONDAY 25

• AIDS Candlelight Memorial March: to commemorate
people touched by the AIDS epidemic. Assemble at Cas¬
tro and Market sts., march begins at 8 PM. March goes
down Market to the Polk St. steps of City Hall where
there will be a program to celebrate life and honor those
3 who have died. Bring a candle. Sponsored by people

with AIDS/ARC of San Francisco and Mobilization
Against AIDS. Call 431-9264 or 431-4660 for more in-

! formation.

' ' • It's Not Too Hot For Summer!: beer bust, S.F. Eagle,

398 12th St., S.F., 3-6 PM, $7. Deanna Jones, SF Flag
Corps, and the winning team from the Gay Softball
League Amateur Night. To benefit the 1987 World Series
2 and the Flag Corps.

’’ • San Francisco FrontRunners: Memorial Day run at

j Ft. Point. Call 647-3227 or 337-8704 for more infor-

' mation.

, • SF Jacks: photo night, 890 Folsom St., S.F., doors

open 7:30-8:30 PM, $6. Photographer Jim James will
be available in a special area. Confidentiality guaranteed.
• Spirituality for Recovering Women: support group,
® 3017 Geary Blvd., S.F., 7-8:30 PM, sliding scale. Call

^ 239-4965 for more information.

• Stress Reduction Workshop: support group. Call
558-8454 for more information.

• Emotional Support Group: for people who have lost
^ their lovers due to AIDS/ARC, 7:30 PM. Call Sean Mar-
tinfield at 626-4329 for more information.

^ [TUESDAY 26

• Gwen Avery: music, Baybrick inn, 1190 Folsom St.,
S.F., 7-9 PM, free.

/ • BurLEZk: erotics for women by Blush Productions,

Baybrick Inn, 1190 Folsom St., S.F., 9 PM. Advance
tickets and reserved seating available at the Baybrick
or at Blush Productions, 526 Castro St. Call 861-4723
for more information.

• Town Meeting: presented by Project Inform, San
Francisco MCC, 150 Eureka St., S.F., 7:30 PM. Recent
developments in the FDA's regulations of treatments for
AIDS and ARC will be discussed along with other new
developments in the politics of treatment access. Infor¬
mation on available experimental treatments will be pro¬
vided, as well as a discussion on the meaning of the re¬
cent reports about AZT.

• Association for Gay and Lesbian Designers: meet¬
ing, Castro Commons, 2425 Market St., Apt. 11, S.F.,
7:30 PM. Designers in all fields are welcome. Call

, 389-1003 for more information.

• Metaphysical AIDS Healing Service: What is Meta¬
physical Healing? Part I featuring Rev. Eddie Gilbert,
Charlie Gehrke, and Ed Ivey, First Unitarian Church, 1187
Franklin St., S.F., 7 PM. Plus a guided meditation by the
Cosmik Ladya Presented by the Metaphysical Alliance,
co-sponsored by the AIDS Interfaith Network. Call

■ 431-8708 or 928-HOPE for more information.

• Evening Group Orientation: for people with AIDS or
I ARC, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, 333 Valencia St.,

4th floor, S.F., free. Assistance in interpreting financial
! benefit systems, applying for government assistance
j programs, and information on social service agencies
I and discounts availabla Call 864-4376 to reserve a

WEDNESDAY 27

• Miss Kitty and the Psycho Soul Blues Band: music.
Oasis, 2451 Harrison St., S.F., 9 PM, free.

• Pamela Z: music, Baybrick Inn, 1190 Folsom St, S.F.,
6:30-8:30 PM, free.

• Comedy Plus: with Marga Gomez, Baybrick Inn, 1190
Folsom St., S.F., 8:30 PM, $2. An ongoing showcase
for new and experienced comedy performers. Call 431-
8334 to perform.

• What's A Mother To Do?: stage performance (see Fri¬
day listing for details).

• Oh, Coward!: a Noel Coward musical review, 8 PM
(See Friday listing for details).

• The Ethics of AIDS Testing: television on Express,
KQED, channel 9, 8 PM. Discrimination, confidentiality,
and the individual's right to privacy.

THURSDAY 28

• Marga Gomez: comedy. Holy City Zoo, 408 Clement
St., S.F., 9 PM, $2. Marga hosts the Zoo's comedy
showcase. Call 386-4242 for tickets.

• Threepenny Opera: stage performance (see Friday
listing for details).

• Feathers and Flesh: show, N' Touch, 1548 Polk St.,
S.F., 10 PM.

• What's A Mother To Do?: stage performance (see Fri¬
day listing for details).

• San Francisco Acoustic Jazz Trio: music, Baybrick
Inn, 1190 Folsom St, S.F., 7-9 PM, free. With Mimi Fox,
Irene Sazar, and Suzanne Vincensa.

• Oh, Coward!: A Noel Coward musical review, 10 PM
(see Friday listing for details).

• Electric City: television on cable 6, 9 PM. Sandy Van
will star in the Tallulah Bankhead Show with guests Dr.
Ruth, Ernestine, and Rainbeau. Footage of the AIDS
Bike-A-Thon.

• Lobby for Individual Freedom and Equality: fund¬
raiser at the home of John Newmeyer, 2004 Gough St.,
S.F., 6-8 PM, $40. Champagne, wine, and hors
d'oeuvres. To benefit Bay Area affiliates.

• Older Gay Men's Friendship Group: meeting. Friend¬
ship Room, 711 Eddy St, S.F., 2:45 PM. Led by George
Birimisa. Sponsored by Operation Concern's Gay and
Lesbian Outreach to Elders. Call 626-7000 for more in¬
formation.

• Pat Wilder's R&B Jam: music, Baybrick Inn, 1190
Folsom St., S.F., 10 PM, $2. All musicians welcome.

The Bay Area Reporter welcomes organizations,
businesses, and individuals to submit items for its week¬
ly calendar. Placement in the calendar is free and the
sole responsibility of the editors. Deadline: 5 PM on
Thursdays.

Marga Gomez does the Holy City Zoo May
28 (Photo: Photo Graphics/Darlene)

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SAY 60WLING LEACUES

MONDAY COMMUNITY LEAGUE

The most established Gay Bowling League in San
Francisco. This league has been bowling for over
20 years. League starts on June 1, bowls at
8;45pm, costs $9.00 per week and is 80%
handicap. 5 bowlers to a team.

TUESDAY COMMUNITY LEAGUE

Perhaps the most fun league in the city. This
league is more for the bowler who wants to make
new friends and have a fun night out at a low cost.
League starts on May 26, bowls at 8:45pm, costs
$9.00 per week and is 90% handicap. 5 bowlers
to a team.

WEDNESDAY COMMUNITY LEAGUE

This is the largest Gay League in San Francisco,
presently 28 teams. This league fills up fast so
don't delay. League starts on June 10, bowls at
8:45pm, costs $8.50 per week and Is 80%
handicap. 5 bowlers to a team.

THURSDAY AFTERNOON
COMMUNITY LEAGUE

Great league for Bartenders and other night
workers. This is the only weekday afternoon
league in the city. League starts on June 11, bowls
at 1:00pm, costs $6.50 per week and is 90%
handicap. 3 bowlers to a team.

SUNDAY RENO LEAGUE

Everyone in this league will go to Reno for a week¬
end at the end of the bowling season. The week¬
ly fees in this league include the trip to Reno and
the trips are always loads of fun. League starts on
May 24, bowls at 6:00pm, costs $11.00 per week
and is 90% handicap. 4 bowlers to a team.

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BAY AREA REPORTER MAY 21, 1987 PAGE 25

BAY AREA REPORTER
ENTERTAINMENT

When the World Looks Olfforent Uoon Leaviod

a fly impaled on a pin. Santiago’s
characterization of the interro¬
gator is a Hnely granded tour de
force. In a play where a kind
remark can be assumed to be a
lie, Santiago’s lapses into cor¬
diality are obviously calculated.
Nevertheless, Santiago maintains
the illusion of spontaneity that
keeps on deceiving, keeps on
generating hope that now the tor¬
ture is over. For all the technical
accomplishment of his work,
however, Santiago never quite
gives the script’s sexual subtext
full expression. Santiago allows
the interrogator’s psychological
gratiHcation in inflicting sexual
humiliation to show, but not his
sensuous pleasure. By holding
back sexually, Santiago under¬
cuts justification for Duden to be
aroused without seeming a
mascochist, which he is not.

With the assistance of his ac¬
tors, Steven Proctor Gray’s
opulently chilling set, and
lighting by Wendy W. Gilmore
that dares to intimidate the audi¬
ence just a little, director Keno
Rider has created a restless,
claustrophobic, yet magnetic pro¬
duction. Strictly a Formality
makes the world look different on
exiting the theater from the way
it looked on entering. •

Strictly a Formality
The Studio at Theatre Rhino
Through June 7; 861-5079

by Bernard Spunberg

P sychological torture
heightened by sadistic sex
makes Strictly a Formal¬
ity the most gripping play I’ve
seen at Theatre Rhinoceros in re¬
cent memory. Produced and
directed in The Studio by Keno
Rider, Ray Conboy, Jr. and
Thomas F. Silber’s hot interroga¬
tion drama adheres to convention
and is certainly not unpredic¬
table. Tight structure and ar¬
ticulate expression of irrecon¬
cilable political points of view,
however, exclude cliche while
frighteningly, hypnotically turn¬
ing the dramatic screw.

The action is simple: An agent
of a repressive government inter¬
rogates a gay historian concern¬
ing his articles and book critical
of the government. Superficially,
the interrogation is designed to
force the historian into repudia¬
tion of his work. But as the rela¬
tionship between the two men un¬
folds, repudiation is revealed as
the least of the interrogator’s
purposes and the easiest to
achieve. His real object is to crush
the historian’s integrity while
leaving his mind and body intact.

Alternating brutality and flat¬
tery form the basis of the inter¬
rogator’s technique, and their
cumulative power is meant to
soften up the historian for the

ultimate assault. In his sweetest,
most sympathetic voice, the inter¬
rogator asks the historian:
“Can’t you see that you’re bring¬
ing ail this trouble on yourself?
Can’t you see that you are to
blame for the suffering and
chaos and that you are literally
forcing me, a perfectly nice
fellow, into persecuting you.

another perfectly nice fellow?”

It’s the nonlogic that’s always
foisted on oppressed minorities,
and its expression in Strictly a
Formality follows relentless
psychological brutality that
sheds the most seductive light
possible on the lie. Until the
tables turn, that is, and the inter¬
rogator is exposed as no less a

prisoner than is the historian.

Both Mikael Duden and Paul
Santiago give powerful perform¬
ances. Duden’s courageous por¬
trayal of the historian achieves
beUevability Iqr showing that high
moral principles are no guaran¬
tee against terror. Cynical,
hysterical, resigned, and rebel¬
lious, Duden twists and turns like

Mikael Duden (I.) and Paul Santiago struggle in Strictly A Formality

(Photo: S. Cohen)

Near and Dear

' o to the door on the

'Hwfar right,” said the
ticket-taker at Zeller-
bach Auditorium Sunday night.

“The far right? For a Holly
Near concert?” 1 exclaimed. In¬
deed, our seats were the only
thing on the right as Near, de¬
spite her announced intention to
cross over into the mainstream
with her new album, Don't Hold
Back^ wove raps and announce¬
ments on a veritable panoply of
liberal politics into an assortment
of songs that spanned her career
in age and subject matter.

Items were collected for Nica¬
raguan day care centers. Near
mentioned that Redwood Rec¬
ords is looking for investors and
wants to do “a progressive album
for children,” and commented,
“I really didn’t care who Hart
had slept with. 1 wanted to know
if he would have committed
crimes all over the world like the
current president.”

The word “lesbian” was never
spoken, but two songs dealt overt¬
ly and naturally with womanlove.
In one a woman planned “a per¬
fect night” out with her friend:
“They’ll ask,’ ‘Are you ladies
alone?’ and we’ll say, ‘No, we’re
together.”’ Before singing “It’s
simply love, my love for a wo¬
man,” Near told us her mother,
“always one of my best support¬
ers and one of my best critics,”
calls it “one of my best songs.”
Mother knows best.

(Continued on page 38)

Holly Near

0(ma Stars Sftine
atZdiierbach

by David-Alex Nahmod

I t was an exciting night at the
Zellerbach Auditorium in
Berkeley on May 1. Olivia
Records, the pioneering women’s
music company, had a parade of
its brightest stars on stage play¬
ing to a packed house. It was
more than a concert. It was a cel¬
ebration. Olivia is not only alive,
but still a vibrant force in wo¬
men’s music.

The evening began with Nancy
Vogel and Tret Fure performing
songs from their latest albums.
Fure had the audience panting
with her tremendously sexual
stage presence as she did a siz¬
zling rendition of her “Tight
Black Jeans.” The evening end¬
ed with Olivia’s grande dame,
Gris Williamson, who got a long
and loud round of applause. On
top of her solo set, Williamson
was also on and off the stage
throughout most of the evening,
joining the other women in song.

But the evening’s highlight
was Olivia’s newest star, Lucie
Blue Tremblay. Sporting a 10-
gallon hat, French Canadian
Lucie spoke of the many accents
she’d picked up on her concert
tour, then sang “Mademoiselle”
in a perfect Texas drawl.

Anyone who has heard Lucie’s
album knows what a beautiful

and powerful voice she has,
and when she began singing in
French there was a hushed si¬
lence throughout the theater. She
also premiered a new, as yet un¬
recorded, song, “Bald Eagle,”
that deals with her recent prob¬
lems with the immigration de¬
partment. It moved the audience
to give her a standing ovation.

All in all, Olivia’s Festival ’87
was a thrilling evening of music
and theater. I wish the record
company continued good for¬
tune, and hope to see a concert
like this again in the near future.

SHAKA ZULU
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
(Warner Bros.)

Shaka Zulu is the stunningly
beautiful solo LP by Ladysmith
Black Mambazo, the South Afri¬
can group that backed up Paul
Simon on his highly acclaimed
Graceland. Simon produced this
unforgettable album, thus giving
the group a chance to open up its
very personal brand of music to
a much wider audience.

The music is haunting. Sad,
eerie, and deeply moving, it grabs
the listener as few records will.
These men have put the suffering
of South African blacks into their
(Continued on page 44)

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Cabaret Is Not Rappaport

by Steve Warren

A few years ago you couldn’t
go to the theater without
seeing Catholics on stage,
during the Mass Appeal of Sister
Mary Agnes of Cod cycle. This
month it’s Jews. Theatre Rhinoc¬
eros continues Michael Zimmer¬
man’s Jewish mother sitcom,
What's a Mother to do? through
May 30, and now we’ve got two
big touring shows. Cabaret and
Fm Not Rappaport. Can another
Fiddler be far behind?

Fm Not Rappaport, a story of
male bonding between senior
citizens, is by Herb Gardner,
author of my all-time favorite
stage comedy, A Thousand
Clowns. Rappaport isn’t in that
league, but it’s funny, touching,
relevant, extremely well acted,
and features a Tony Walton set
I’d love to reproduce in my living
room.

The main characters, both 81
years old, are Nat (Judd Hirsch),
a Lithuanian Jewish socialist,
and Midge (Cleavon Little), a
black man who cheated on all five
of his wives. Nat clings to his
principles, while his failing eyes
search for new windmills to tilt
with. Midge still has his job of 42
years, as super in an apartment
building about to go co-op. They
meet on a bench in Central Park,
where the garrulous Nat regales
the reluctant Midge with a com¬
bination of new lies and stories of
lies he’s told other people:
“Sometimes the truth doesn’t fit.

I make alterations.”

In many ways Nat is Murray
Burns of A Thousand Clowns 45
years later. He still hasn’t grown
up or lost hope of bringing the
world around to his way of seeing
things. A conversation with his
daughter (Cheryl Giannini), who
“gave up Marx and Lenin for
Bergdorf and Goodman,” is like
Murray’s talk with his sold-out
older brother. As Murray fought
to keep his nephew from being
put up for adoption, Nat is trying
to keep himself from being put in
a home where “the only way you
can tell the live people from the
dead ones is how old the news¬
papers are.”

He lashes out eloquently to ex¬
plain the need for coalition
among the deprived to a street
punk who’s extorting money
from him, and to keep Midge
from losing his job—“The old
people, they know something.
They didn’t just stay late to ruin
your party.” Putting the elderly
out to pasture, he argues, is “like
abortion at (life’s) other end.

“Nostalgia,” Nat says, “kills
more of us than heart failure.” In
a few too many sentimental
moments it threatens to kill the
play, but Gardner always bounces
back with new comic invention.
He gives each character some
outrageous bits of business,
which the actors, under Daniel
Sullivan’s direction, work into
seamless, consistent, flawless per¬
formances.

Y ou’re not likely to see a
better production of Fm
Not Rappaport than this.
Cabaret on the other hand, while
highly recommended, has room
for improvement. This revival is
going to, not coming from Broad¬
way, so improvements are likely to
be made.

With director Harold Prince
and much of his team encoring
from the 1966 production, a num¬
ber of changes have been made.
Most are for the better, including
repeated references to the central

How rude! — Joel Grey gets goosed by Kit Kat girl Ruth Gott-
schall in Cabaret

character’s bisexuality, previous¬
ly ignored in the show and saved
for a climactic revelation in the
1972 film. Cabaret is, after all,
based on Christopher Isher-
wood’s Berlin Stories, and Clif¬
ford Bradshaw represents Ish.

In Berlin in 1930 the Nazis
were just starting to attack Jews;
gays had four more years to relax.
Cliff, nicely played by Gregg
Edelman, arrives in search of his
muse and finds her in nightclub
entertainer Sally Bowles. Blonde
Alyson Reed won’t erase your
memory of Liza Minnelli in the
part, but she’ll help you forget
her own inadequate performance
in the film of A Chorus Line (she
was Cassie).

Cliff is informed on the train
coming in about the Kit Kat
Klub, where they have the orig¬
inal phone sex: “Telephones on
every table. Girls call you. Boys
call you. Instant connections.” A
gay couple, Bobby (Michaelan
Sisti) and Victor (Lars Rosager),
are very much in evidence at the
club, and Bobby thinks he recog¬
nizes Cliff from a gay bar in Lon¬
don. “You don’t have to be afraid
here, honey,” Bobby tells him.
“This is Berlin.”

Later, when Cliff and Sally
compare notes about the friends
they’ve made at parties, it comes
out that Cliff has attracted one
Gottfried von Schwarzenbaum
and can’t get rid of him.

The romance between Cliffs
landlady and a Jewish fruit seller,
omitted from the youth-oriented
film, was orginally and memor¬
ably enacted by Lotte Lenya and
Jack Gilford. Reginia Resnik,
who draws cheers from the opera
queens in the audience, subs well
for Lenya after a few shaky line
readings in her first scene; but
Werner Klemperer has been
directed to play up his charac¬
ter’s Germanness rather than his
Jewishness. That’s fine in theory,
but it leaves a great void where
Gilford’s personality was.

My memory could be at fault
here, but there seem to be fewer
outward trappings of Nazism in
this production, which reduces
the chillingness of the nationalist
anthem, “Tomorrow Belongs to
Me.”

Cliff’s first-act solo “Why
Should I Wake Up?” has been
replaced with the equally bland
“Don’t Go.” Gilford’s “Mees-
kite” has been dropped and the
“Money” songs from stage and
screen have been turned into a
medley. The Emcee has a new
mini-ballad, “I Don’t Care
Much,” before the title song.

Speaking of the Emcee, Joel
Grey has finally moved up to top
billing from fifth in the original
and third in the film. There’s
nothing new to say about his
definitive portrayal of this an¬
drogynous pied piper who keeps
the party going no matter who’s
doing the partying. For a mo¬
ment it seems Grey will make
changes for the sake of change,
but he soon settles into the
classic Tony- and Oscar-winning
style that has made the role uni¬
quely his for 21 years.

Idle thoughts: In the unlikely
event this show needs a boxoffice
boost in New York, is Liza stand¬
ing by to jump in as Sally? And
would Bette Midler consider a
turn as the landlady in prepara¬
tion for her screen biography of
Lenya?

In 1966 Cabaret was revolu¬
tionary. Now in a sense it’s
OA:/afuckingAoma, which was
also revolutionary in its day. Its
techniques are no longer new, nor
is the idea of adding songs to
serious, relevant subjects; but
Cabaret is back to remind us how
few shows in the interim have
been able to apply its lessons as
well. •

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Out of Academia And Back To The Academy

S olo dancing is the rarest
performance style today
despite the fact that the
forerunners of modern dance,
Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, and
Maud Allan, all achieved their
fame as solo dancers. (The latter
two were reared in the Bay Area,
incidentally.) A courageous en¬
deavor, the soloist who performs
his or her own choreography
takes a double risk since any
weakness or inconsistency is
absolutely attributable to the
source artist.

Leslie Friedman, the best
known contemporary Bay Area
soloist, gains a particular cachet
by virtue of her scholastic back¬
ground, an appealing one to
modern dance audiences, which
are traditionally the most intel¬
lectual dance audiences in every
city. Friedman, who holds a
Ph.D. in history, which she taught
at Vassar and at Case Western
Reserve University, maintained
almost a dual profession before
she finally chose to devote herself
entirely to dancing several years
ago. Recently she has planned
her concerts with live musical
accompaniments, an admirable,
too-infrequent enrichment at
modern dance events. Wise pro¬
motional efforts accompany
Friedman’s career; the press
turned out en masse for her
Herbst Theatre debut last Friday
night, my first exposure to her
work. But after reading Fried¬
man’s promising earlier notices,
I could hardly believe I was
watching the dancer they de¬
scribed.

A Fantasy, to a John Dowland
piece played on guitar by David
Tanenbaum, introduced Fried¬
man as a hoydenish waif with a
mildly zany manner and a nicely
trained, obedient body. Her lim¬
itations became more evident
during the second of her five
dances. Tell Tale, to a Bach cello
suite, also played on guitar by
Tanenbaum. Like most dancers
whose choreography is improvi-
sational in style, Friedman uses
a tiny vocabulary of favorite steps
to which she gives little dynamic
modulation. Except in the “Sara-
bande,” which Friedman choreo¬
graphed almost entirely on her
arms and upper body from a
standing position, each of the
suite’s five danced movements
looked just like the preceding
ones. Friedman’s stage presence,
though engaging, could not com¬
pensate for this lack of variety in

Leslie Friedman flies through the air in Girl Like A Kite

(Photo: B. Adler)

her choreography. But more dis¬
turbing were the kinds of lapses
in musicality that allow Fried¬
man to finish a movement phrase
and exit the stage before the
music has ended, giving her
choreography a more arbitrary
look than would be desirable even
if she were extemporizing.

Heartland, a meditation on
pioneer feminism, was a more
textured piece in which Fried¬
man seemed more musically re¬
sponsive, achieving at times a
real unity with Jon Deak’s “Met¬
aphor for Solo Violoncello,”
played by Emil Miland. Fried¬
man’s much-publicized flight in
the closing Girl Like a Kite had
the unfortunate effect of shed¬
ding the light of its gimmickry on
all that had preceded it. As pian¬
ist Betty Woo continued playing
the Beethoven Sonata No. 13, the
worst instances of anti-musicality
occurred as Friedman repeatedly
disappeared into the wings to
attach (and detach and vice-versa)
the wires that would carry her
across the stage in a state of what
looked like good-natured terror.
Audience members who had seen
stage versions of Peter Pan were
appalled, and even some sup¬
porters who tried hard to take it
seriously had to snicker in spite
of themselves.

I admire Friedman’s nerve,
dedication, and technical ability,
of which her own choreography
does not take full advantage —
and that is perhaps the most seri-

The Lesbian/Gay Chorus of
San Francisco is pleased to an¬
nounce that it will host a raffle in
conjunction with its production
of this year’s gay pride concert.

The Ninth Annual Gay Musi¬
cal Celebration—a one-evening-
only musical extravaganza—will
take place at 8 p.m. Friday, June
26, at the First Congregational
Church on Post and Mason
Streets in San Francisco. A
variety of local musical groups
will join together to make this the
largest cultural event of gay pride
week. Some of the artists
featured will be; Menage, The
San Francisco Gay Men’s
Chorus, The Vocal Minority, The
Dick Kramer Gay Men’s Chorale,
and The San Francisco Gay
Freedom Day Marching Band
and Twirling Corps.

The festivities will include a
drawing to determine the winner
of an all expense-paid weekend
retreat for two in Palm Springs.

ous shortcoming of her concert
as a whole. Like Ze’eva Cohen,
another capable solo dancer I
thought of during this concert,
Friedman would shine brighter
in a repertory format incorporat¬
ing solos made by other choreog¬
raphers. Without such variety, a
soloist would have to possess the
charismatic intensity of Isadora
herself in order to capture the
loyalties of today’s overexposed
and underenchanted modern
dance audience.

BACK TO SCHOOL

There was a shoestring-
budgeted look to this year’s San

Francisco Ballet School Student
Showcase, the first since Nancy
Johnson Carter was named the
school’s manager (a position I
gather is an approximation of the
“Director” post formerly held by
Richard Cammack, though Helgi
Tomasson is listed as “Artistic
Director” of the school as well as
the company). Musical accom¬
paniments were provided by pairs
of pianists, a letdown after hear¬
ing the San Francisco Symphony
Youth Orchestra at last year’s
showcase. The costumes, by An¬
drea Cooper and Wendy Kolte,
consisted of the same plain white
tutus (for the girls) and white
blouson shirts with black tights

(for the boys) on every dancer, at
every level, in every ballet — even
the Don Quixote pas de deux!

Aside from its meager produc¬
tion values, the showcase con¬
tained some wonderful dancing.
Henry Berg’s/arrfm des Eleves,
to music of Saint-Saens, tasteful¬
ly mobilized the younger grades
in a single dance presided over by
soloist Codie Bayer (from Class
Eight). Konservatoriet, Bournon-
ville’s famous, difficult classroom
study, was danced by Classes IV-
VIII and they made a fine show¬
ing of it. Suspicion alone sug¬
gests Tomasson might have come
in and taught this himself follow¬
ing the example of Stanley Wil¬
liams at the School of American
Ballet. (The last time I saw Kon¬
servatoriet there, current SFB
dancer Marco Carrabba took the
role of the Ballet Master, partner¬
ing American Ballet Theatre’s
Leslie Brown.)

More than suspicion suggests
Russian teacher Larisa Sklyan-
skaya’s coaching of the Don
Quixote pas de deux, danced by
excellent new company appren¬
tice Jennifer Karius with the
sensationally virtuosic Sedley
Chew. The final Christensen-
Balanchine Variations de Ballet
summed up the accomplishment
of the advanced students.
AliceAnn Wilson and Sebastian
Hester danced with calm assur¬
ance in the first pas de deux, and
in the second, Edward Ellison
partnered Katita Waldo, an abso¬
lute knockout beauty who is the
only other incoming SFB appren¬
tice listed this year. •

See A Concert, Go to Palm Springs

The prize includes transporta¬
tion to and from S.F. Airport,
round-trip airline tickets, two
nights at the Desert Palms hotel,
and a rental car in Palm Springs.
The total prize is valued at more
than $500.

Raffle tickets are available for
$1 from Chorus members and
will also be sold at the concert.

The Lesbian/Gay Chorus is ex¬
pecting a full house for the Gay
Musical Celebration, so concert-
goers are advised to get their
tickets early. Tickets are $6 and
$12 ($8 and $14 at the door) and
are available at all Headlines
stores, Sutter’s Mill, and Big
Mama’s (Hayward).

The Lesbian/Gay Chorus
wishes to thank Passport to
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generous donation of the raffle
weekend.

For more information about
concert or raffle tickets, call
861-4877. •

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im^Ti n:

G iving birth to an opera has
been made easier in re¬
cent years thanks, in large
part, to the process of workshop¬
ping. Next week, when American
Inroads presents two perform¬
ances of John Adams’ Nixon In
China, the Bay Area composer
will have an invaluable chance
to examine how his new opera
sounds to a live audience before
putting the final finishing touch¬
es on the score.

Like Anthony Davis’ X: The
Life and Times of Malcolm X,
Adams’ new work could help pro¬
pel the operatic art form into the
21st century. For better or worse,
the opera’s cast of characters in¬
cludes such heavyweights as
Richard Nixon (the only Ameri¬
can President to have had an
opera written about him), Henry
Kissinger, and Mao-Tse-Tung.

Will Nixon In China become
the great American opera every¬
one has been waiting for? There
are no guarantees. But, after re¬
ceiving its fully staged world
premiere from the Houston
Grand Opera Oct. 22, Nixon In
China will be presented at the
Brooklyn Academy of Music, the
Kennedy Center for the Perform¬
ing Arts, and the Theatre de la
Monnaie in Brussels, Belgium.
“To have a world premiere is
nice. But it’s the second, third,
and fourth productions of a work
which are important,” said
Patrick Smith, executive director
of the National Endowment’s
Opera/Musical Theatre Program.

'While skeptics
question the need
to create new works
when the achieve¬
ments of Puccini,
Wagner, Verdi, and
Mozart can hardly
be topped, the hard
truth Is that in order
to become a pop¬
ular art form in
America it must em¬
brace new sounds
and move into the
future.'

—John De Main
Conductor, Nixon In China

ASSEMBLING THE RIGHT
CREATIVE TALENTS

The opera’s subject matter —
combined with the fact that the
Music Critics Association will be

convening in Houston for the
world premiere — assures its
creators that Nixon In China will
make news. A project engineered
by the Houston Grand Opera’s
General Director, David Gockley,

works when the achievements of
Puccini, Wagner, Verdi, and
Mozart can hardly be topped, the
hard truth is that in order for
opera to become a popular art
form in America it must embrace
new sounds and move into the
future.

“How else are we going to get
a body of work which is com¬
prised of so-called ‘American
opera?”’ asks the National En¬
dowment’s Patrick Smith. “We
can’t legislate it by telling poor
Sam Barber to write Antony and
Cleopatra. That approach obvi¬
ously didn’t work. Furthermore,
there is a general societal illiter¬
acy developing in America. Al¬
though it may be fashionable to
think that the problem affects
only the lower or street classes,
that’s not the case at all — it’s
happening right now at the
middle-class level.

“Because we’re trapped in a
sensation-mongering situation,
the media goes wild when thou¬
sands of people attend Philip
Glass’ Einstein On the Beach or
some other phenomenon. Editors
put such events on the cover of
Time magazine for one week and
then new American operas go
right back out of the public’s con¬
sciousness. The bitter truth is
that many people in the media
don’t want to know about opera
because they’re editing for the
masses and, therefore, aiming
at the lowest common denom¬
inator.”

this new work is being partially
funded by the National Endow¬
ment for the Arts and Opera
America’s Opera Into the Eight¬
ies And Beyond program. Like
many other new American oper¬
as, Nixon In China is receiving
NEA funding in three stages:
creation, development, and cost
of production.

Most of the people I’ve talked
to who are associated with this
subject feel that, if all goes well,
Nixon In China could be a stag¬
gering achievement. Its creators
certainly boast impressive track
records. The composer, John
Adams, is considered by many to
be one of the most talented musi¬
cians in the minimalist move¬
ment. And Peter Sellars (the
opera’s director who has been
hailed far and wide as a 20th cen¬
tury dramatic wunderkind) re¬
cently received the MacArthur
Foundation or “genius” award.

One of the people involved
with the project from its start has
been John DeMain, who will con¬
duct American Inroads’ reading
of Nixon In China as well as the
San Francisco Opera’s produc¬
tion of Porgy and Bess. A man
with equal strengths in the
Broadway and operatic idioms
(he has conducted works by
Strauss, Puccini, Mozart, Verdi,
Joplin, Kern, Bernstein, Sond¬
heim, and Philip Glass for the
Houston Grand Opera) DeMain
has worked with such formidable
performing artists as Carol Chan-
ning, Renata Scotto, Placido
Domingo, Eva Marton, Leontyne
Price, and Ethel Merman. In
1978 he received both the Gram¬
my award and France’s Grand
Prix du Disque for his recording
of Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess.

When one examines perform¬
ance art pieces like George
Coates’ Rare Area or Laurie
Anderson’s 0 Superman, it be¬
comes obvious that the future of
opera will be strongly influenced
by a combination of traditional
theatrical forces and music video.

“All of us are children of the
LP disc and, to be able to buy
complete operas has given us a
chance to know the music that no
one could have had 30 years ago,”
said Columbia Artists’ manage¬
ment consultant Matthew Ep¬
stein. “To be able to turn on
one’s television set and watch a
complete performance of Tosca
or La Gioconda is something that
simply could not have been
imagined!

“Each nation experiences a
century in which there is a sud¬
den, incredible explosion of cre¬
ativity — a period which usually
coincides with tremendous deca¬
dence in society. French opera
reached its greatest heights dur¬
ing the decadence of French ro¬
manticism. Russian opera was at
its greatest during the decadence
of the Czar’s regime. Italian
opera had its greatest moments
during the Risorgimento — just
before the Italian state entered its
Fascist period and, at this very
moment, the United States is just
ripe for opera to become a con¬
temporary art form.”

Whether or not Epstein’s pre¬
dictions come true, I have a
sneaky suspicion Tricky Dickie
will prove to be a curious choice
as the man who is best equipped
to lead American opera into the
21st century. •

Coming Home

COUNTDOWN TO
HOUSTON

When I spoke with DeMain in
his dressing room at Houston’s
Jones Hall (following the open¬
ing-night performance of Salome
March 27) he confided that Ad¬
ams’ score is one of the most dif¬
ficult pieces of music he has ever
had to learn. While skeptics
question the need to create new

Saturday, May 12, through Fri¬
day, May 29, Coming Home To
Art week will be held concurrent¬
ly at The Mitre Box Gallery, 4082
14th St., and Out of Hand Gal¬
lery, 1303 Castro St. A portion of
proceeds of all sales made this
week will benefit Coming Home
Hospice. •

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Beware of False Prophets

T wo new films concern an¬
cient prophecies of mes¬
sengers from afar who will
save or transform the world. Evil
Dead II is intentionally bad,
Ishtar unintentionally so. Moral:
beware the prophet motive.

BOY OH BOY!

Gothic Schmothic. The Boy
Friend’s back and all is forgiven.
Ken Russell’s multilayered camp
extravaganza was one of my favor¬
ite films of 1971. Tommy Tune
told me 1 hadn’t seen anything
until 1 saw the longer version that
was shown in Europe. After many
years the Castro has landed the
U.S. premiere of what their mar¬
quee has blatantly billed “Ken
Russell’s uncut Boy Friend]’ and
now I’ve seen it. I’m not a size
queen. I love this movie either
way.

The additions include a Greek
ballet spoof that takes the film
into the Troc’s territory, and a
raunchy “It’s Nicer in Nice” that
would have kept it from getting
a G rating.

The Boy Friend was the last
great MGMusical. Russell both
parodies and pays homage to
stage and screen musicals of the
’20s through ’40s, out-Busbying
Berkeley by showing what the
movies’ great dance director
could have done with a wider
screen. Sandy Wilson’s stage
pastiche becomes a play within a
play as Russell borrows from
42nd Street and its ilk for hun¬
dreds of showbiz cliches.

This is where Twiggy gave the
first hint she was something more
than a model and a joke. She and
Christopher Gable, whose screen

Isabelle Adjani in her Middle Eastern male drag in Ishtar

career consisted mostly of play¬
ing Richard Chamberlain’s lover
{The Music Lovers, The Slipper
and the Rose), dance Fred and
Gingerly together. Tommy Tune
is delightful at the point just
before he rose to new heights as
a director and choreographer.

and unbilled Glenda Jackson
walks away with the film on one
leg in the greatest cameo in
history.

Warning: Seeing The Boy
Friend spread across the Castro’s
big screen could make you go

home and smash your VCR.
(Castro)

GAY AS IN SERGEI

Because there are no homo¬
sexuals in the USSR, Sergei
Paradjanov officially did not exist
between making The Color of
Pomegranates (1969) and The
Legend of Suram Fortress (1985),
although he spent four and a half
years in prison for being gay.

Not the kind of film I ordinari¬
ly like. Pomegranates is a definite
exception, a cinematic poem
based on the life and work of 18th
century Armenian poet Sayat
Nova. The striking visuals —
many are subtly homoerotic but
my readers are clever enough to
catch them — have either in¬
spired or been inspired by Derek
Jarman, Ken Russell, Fellini, and
Pasolini, among others.

Some once-trendy editing
tricks are annoying now, but
sound, music, and color are used
brilliantly. Male and female
mimes in the poet’s youth sug¬
gest his male and female com¬
ponents, although the credits
identify one as “The Poet’s Be¬
loved.” She returns to tempt him
after he becomes a monk, but
again it may be his feminine side
he’s rejecting.

Undoubtedly some will be
equally or more pleased by The
Legend of Suram Fortress. It’s a
more mature work in many re¬
spects, but shows less of the
“gei” in Sergei, who co-directed.

This folk tale, padded with folk
dances, features longer scenes
and more dialogue, reducing the
need for visual creativity, the
strong point of the earlier film.
There are still any number of
splendid images, but if you can
only see one Paradjanov work,
make it The Color of Pomegran¬

ates, which is perfect gay festival
material. (Roxie)

ROAD TO OBLIVION

Ishtar must have started as a
small idea. Unfortunately, only
the budget grew. It’s surprising¬
ly outspoken about America’s
tendency to back dictators and
play dirty in the name of fighting
Communism, but the fact it was
made at all indicates someone in
Hollywood still does drugs.

Warren Beatty and Dustin
Hoffman play, respectively, the
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby roles
in this contemporary “Road”
movie. Hoffman’s a good enough
actor to convince us he’s a ladies’
man, but Beatty couldn’t sell a
joke through a literary agent.
They play no-talent singer/song-
songwriters who can’t get booked
west of Morocco. Writer-director
Elaine May spends entirely too
much time persuading us how
untalented they are, and the ac¬
tors are all too believable in this
regard. The soundtrack will only
sell to masochists.

A foreign intrigue angle, not
unlike that of Spies Like Us,
starts when Isabelle Adjani solic¬
its each of our heroes individual¬
ly to help her recover a map that
controls the fate of the mideast.
She’s dressed as a boy (how do
Arabs tell?), which gives each
man a chance to declare his het¬
erosexual credentials — Hoff¬
man adding an “I don’t care
what you do” clause — before
discovering the truth.

Charles Grodin represents the
CIA as the laughs, action, and
suspense build to fizzle. Ishtar
isn’t a totally awful movie, just a
waste of time, money, and in some
cases talent. (Northpoint, Cen¬
tury Plaza, Stonestown)

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T housands of leather men
will convene in Chica¬
go this weekend for the
Eighth Annual Inti. Mr. Leather
Contest at the luxurious Park
West. Some 30 contestants from
all over the nation are expected
to compete for leatherdom’s most
coveted title and at my deadline,
some foreign entries were ex¬
pected to compete.

A large contingent from Our
Town will be heading East tomor¬
row morning for the weekend of
leathery activities, which is again
expected to be a SRO event. The
hot dudes from the surrounding
states of Iowa, Indiana, Wiscon¬
sin, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri,
and Michigan will be there to
observe the leather-ites coming
from all parts of the nation.

San Francisco will only have
two contestants in the competi¬
tion this year; Mr. Leather of SF
Bill Johanson (not Bill Johnson
as reported in another rag), and
David Sarathain, long-time pres¬
ident of the California Motor
Club.

Of the seven jduges who will
pick the ultimate winner, San
Francisco’s Patrick Batt of
Mercury Mail Order (who co¬
produced the first contest while
managing the Gold Coast) will be
joined by another former Chi¬
cagoan, Tony DeBlase of Drum¬
mer Magazine. Last year’s win¬
ner, Scott Tucker of Philadelphia,
will join IML Co-Producer Dom
Orejudos (also known as Etienne,
the world-famous artist) and I am
honored to once again be a mem¬
ber of the judging panel.

Among the many parties
planned for the weekend, San
Francisco will enjoin with IML to
host the Saturday-night blow-out
in the personages of Richard
Wright and Chuck Cyberski of
M.E.N., Patrick Batt of Mercury
Mail Order, and myself for the
press, contestants, sponsors, and
dignitaries. Hellfire Club is plan¬
ning a blow-out as well, and the

Bill Johanson, Mr. Leather SF '87, will represent the city in
Chicago (Photo: R. Pruzan)

Black & Blue Ball ends the whole
thing the next night after the con¬
test.

Watch this space next week for
photos and a blow-by-blow de¬
scription of all the “in” action
of the leathery weekend, with ex¬
clusives on the entire scene. Best
wishes and good luck to the San
Francisco entries.

Los Angeles is expected to
make a big showing this year with

contestants from the Gauntlet II,
the One-Way, the Spike, and Com¬
pass Magazine — yes, my dears.
Dean Gibson got Nasty Nan of
Compass Mag to sponsor him.
Martin Burke, Mr. Leather of NY,
will compete, as well as a whole
truckload of hot, hunky leather
men.

If you get impetuous and de¬
cide to go at the last minute, the
(Continued on next page)

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Marcus

(Continued from previous page)

host hotel is Days Inn on Lake-
shore Drive where most of the
press, contestants, sponsors, and
delegates will be staying (it’s sold
out already at the hotel). The best
alternative to that hotel is the
Allerton Hotel on Michigan just
four blocks from the host hotel.
Individual tickets: well, that’s
another story. If there are any
left, they’re $25 officially, but
scalpers will be out in front of the
Park West as usual.

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S an Francisco is not without
its own excitement this
weekend. Of course, the GG
Bridge celebration will predomi¬
nate the list of things to do; hav¬
ing walked across that span my¬
self more than once, it might be
a little tight with thousands of
others on the hoof.

Of all the things going on in
The City this weekend, here are
the best: Tonight (Thursday, 21
May), Supervisor John Molinari
kicks off his campaign with a
rally to announce the gays and
lesbians for his mayoral candi¬
dacy at Trocadero Transfer begin-
ning at 2000 hours. Sharon
McNight will entertain with sur¬
prise guests, and Supervisor
Harry Britt will introduce the co¬
chairs for the campaign. It’s free,
so don’t miss out!

The first run of the season
takes place this weekend with the
Cheaters M/C and their “Go
West Young Man” theme. The
run fee is $95 for 94 hours of fun
and frolic.

The dazzling Blazing Red¬
heads will be at the Oasis Friday
night at 1600 and 2000, so check
out their fantastic rhythmic inter¬
pretations — you won’t be sorry.
Friday night, May 22, Leola Jiles
in Concert at the Great American
Music Hall — get on down and
show her how much we love her
style and her unwavering support
of AIDS.

Trocadero Transfer is all set up
for a weekend array of fun, in¬
cluding a construction party Fri¬
day night. Take Me To The Sea
Saturday, and Sunday, Jennette
McDonald presents “50 Years
and Still Swing-In” with special
decor and all the usual madness,
from 2100 ’til Dawn (special com¬
memorative gift marking the
event!).

Of course, Monday is the 16th
Annual Tricycle Race beginning
at the SF Eagle, a benefit for the
Shanti Project. It begins at Noon
sharp.

Deanna Jones, the Flag Corps,
and the Gay Softball League
Amateur Night winners will per¬
form at the Fire Crystal/Ebony
Star beer bust at the SF Eagle
after the race, beginning at 1500
hours (only $7 for all the beer you
can guzzle).

The Gay Rescue Mission, in ef¬
forts to raise money for meals for
the needy, will show a three-and-
a-half-hour tape, The Golden Age
ofS&M, at 583 Grove. The video
includes ’50s and ’60s color and
black and white films which in¬
corporate WS, CBT, TT, FFofA,
B&D, bestiality, scat, spanking,
etc. The ducats cost a suggested
$3 or more, and the video is only
$25 a copy. Call 431-8748 for
show times.

Monday, May 25, the SF Jacks
got a great thing going at their
890 Folsom club house. It’s Pho¬
to Night! Unfortunately, only one
photographer will take shots of
the big tubes on/in hand (Jim
James) and they are not for pub¬
lication (in this rag?). Keep thew
for souvenirs or for those nice
little ads that demand a photo
first. The SF Jacks are having an

exhibit of said photos June 22,
which the poseurs may choose to
release for exhibit.

Next Thursday night. May 28,
Patrick Toner and his merry
band of bar people unleash the
grand opening of the Atlantis up
at the RushRiv. On 28 May, it’s
a benefit for the Sonoma AIDS
people. Face to Face, with a raf¬
fle for a trip to the Caribbean for
two (only $5 a chance); Friday, 29
May, it’s Bouttoniere Night (no
cover); Saturday, May 30, it’s a
Toga Party (wear your fuzziest)
with Sylvester entertaining (cover
charge TBA). Doors open at 2100
with the show at 2300, Syl really
lets his hair (no matter what col¬
or) down when he’s up at the
River. Sunday, May 31, it’s a Tea
For Two (two for the price of one)
from 1600 hours (no cover).

The next bare chest contest at
the SF Eagle is Thursday, May
28. In addition to the $100 cash
prize for the winner, Les Morgan
of Positive Image will offer the
winner a free photo session for
the beginnings of a portfolio.
Don’t miss it!

Mr. Marcus received an award at the AIDS Emergency Fund's gala at the Green Room last
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Marcus

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Lene Lovich. Ah Nina — so much
leather, so butch, such a voice —
for a straight girl!

Almost forgot to mention
there’s a big celebration at the
Galleria Sunday, May 24. John
Vukas is still in there pitching for
the disco dollies. Tickets are $15
in advance and $20 at the door.
For that you get Michael Garrett
and Odis Campbell spinning the
discs from 2100 ’til Dawn. Need¬
less to say, Vukas can’t do any¬
thing without Fred Badalamente
and Bill Roderick. Throw Steve
Grosvenor in, and this could be
a Golden Gate Bridge Party.

If that’s not enough for you,
head for L.A. or Chicago — I
know they’ll be jumping there
too!

Didn’t make it to the wet boxer
shorts contest at the SF Eagle
last Sunday, but one photogra¬
pher got his camera all wet dur¬
ing the madness so no photos pf
it unless some free-lance dude or
dudette got some!

★ ★ ★

Attention Pin Queens: Big de¬
mand these days for the SF
Eagle’s commemorative pins,
which have been given out each
year since the bar opened.
Anyone out there with a 3rd An¬
niversary pin? There were two,
color red and gold, one with the
word “3RD” and the other with
just three gold stars. If you have
an extra, I know someone who
has an extra 4TH and an extra
6TH if you want to trade. Drop a
note to me at B.A.R. or leave a
phone message.

You haven’t forgotten the
Brown Bag Day benefit Sunday,
June 14, have you? We haven’t
heard the phones ringing too
much yet for your serviceable
clothing or other things you can’t
use anymore. The Brown Bag
Day benefit will take place at the
Pilsner Inn, Rawhide II, Endup,
SF Eagle, Cafe San Marcos, and
Amelia’s. They’ll pick up your
items if you call 821-5830, 861-
4348, 923-9811, 665-5209, or in
Oakland call 482-1372. Prizes
galore and dozens of bargains for
only $1 — a price anyone can af¬
ford. It’s a benefit for the GSL
World Series and the AIDS
Emergency Fund. Get in there
and start helping out — it’s
painless and you’ll be helping
out the community. The Con¬
stantines M/C and the Cal Eagles
M/C are part of this fundraiser
too, and we all need your support.

(Photo: Photo Graphics/Darlene)

The PTL Choir ran in the Bay to Breakers

Fun Buns Calendar contest winner Gary at the Endup

(Photo: Marcus)

TOO LITTLE TO DISH

Yes, that was Leather Daddy’s
Boy James Buhler swirling
around on all the rides with
Patrick London at Disneyland
last weekend.

The Rebel Court of Hollywood
has been asked to join the Holly¬
wood Chamber of Commerce,
something no other Southern
California court has been asked
to do. The Apple Sisters are
miffed. And now that San Diego
has recognized the Rebel Holly¬
wood Court, they’re wondering if
Empress Tina Tanner will do the

same? Certain L.A. court mem¬
bers say they remember when
Tina was a Terror in Hollywood
and was known as Hollywood
Butch. They say it had a lot to do
with his telephone number which
was (before seven-digit numbers)
HO-llywood 2-8824 (check it out).
Or was it Ho-Butch? The Rebel
Court wants to know if Tina will
let them “walk” at the next coro¬
nation? Hello? Widow Norton
Jose coming back to town? David
Stoll running for Emperor
against David Sarathain? Candi
trying to put out the Flame for
Grand Duchess? Stay tuned! •

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BAY AREA REPORTER MAY 21, 1987 PAGE 35

30 Stitches And What Do You Get?

Y es indeed I will go to any
lengths to have an inter¬
esting start to my column,
even four-inch pieces of glass be¬
tween my fingers, which have
kept me from work for a few days.
And believe it or not. I’ve actually
been going to bed by 9 p.m. all
weekend, despite my appear¬
ances while waddling down Cas¬
tro. Thank you Rich Carle for
spreading that choice piece of
gossip. One good turn deserves
another, so I guess I’ll leave it up
to you as to why you are relating
the story of the “numnuts” who

said, “Tina and Patrick, while on
the field at the Gay Softball
League opening-day ceremonies,
made the ‘Perfect 10.”’
Hmmmmm!

Despite injuries to the hand,
heart, and misc., one must push
on, and it is with great pride that
I can announce there will be an
organization of bartenders from
all areas of the city that will en¬
dorse and work for John Molinari
for Mayor. There will be a contact
phone number in my next col¬
umn, as well as more info.

Tonight will be the gay and les¬

bian community’s Molinari For
Mayor Campaign Kickoff and
Rally at the Trocadero Transfer,
520 Fourth St., from 8 ’til 11 p.m.
The admission is free and will in¬
clude entertainment by Sharon
McNight with special surprise
guests, and Supervisor Harry
Britt will introduce the co-chairs
of Gay and Lesbian San Fran¬
ciscans for Molinari. Looks like
this will be a party!

While on the subject of Troc¬
adero I should like to enlighten
you about the special events tak¬
ing place there this weekend in

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honor of the bridge celebration,
none of which are in conjunction
with my sister’s visit, and they are
all going to be events! This Fri¬
day night will be a “Construction
Party” from 10 p.m. ’til 6 a.m.,
and the price will be $5 with con¬
struction attire, leather, Levis, or
feathers. The price will be $7
without the abovementioned, or
with polyester. Troc ID required.
Saturday night will be “Take Me
To The Bridge,” a special party
musical celebration that will go
from 10 p.m. ’til dawn, and the
admission will be $7, with Troc
ID required. Sunday will be the
final highlights of the Troc salute
to the Golden Gate Bridge, with
a party from 9 p.m. ’til dawn—
Jeannette McDonald, 50 Years
and Still Swing-In. Music will be
by Robbie Leslie, and Jeannette
will be portrayed by a special
guest. Door charge is $10. See ya
there!

Celebration, 50 Golden Gate
Years, will be at the Galleria, with
dancing from 9 p.m. ’til dawn, a
midnight extravaganza, and
music by Michael Garrett and
Odis Campbell. Tickets are $15
advance or $20 at the door. It’s
nice to see so many names on the
poster as you tend to wonder
where these people have gone
when they stop saying hello once
in a while.

Now we are down to the day
after, and there will be people out
all over with a holiday to put
under their belts. The party will
start at The S.F. Eagle at 12 noon
for the 16th edition of the Great
Tricycle Race. The Eagle will
donate 25% of the bar proceeds
from noon ’til 2 p.m. to the Shan-
ti Project, which is beneficiary of
the profits of this year’s race.
Danny Williams will be the M.C.

(Continued on next page)

Now these are Levis! (Photo: Photo Graphics/Darlene)

BAY AREA REPORTER MAY 21. 1987 PAGE 36

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A service charge of $2.00 will be billed to your
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Friese

(Continued from previous page)

for the festivities at the Eagle
and also at the Mint for the con¬
clusion of the race. Celebrity
judges at the Eagle will include
Supervisor and Mrs. Molinari,
Empress Tina Tanner, Wayne Fri¬
day, Senator Milton Marks, Allen
White, Mr. Financial District
Marty McClellan, and a host of
others. At the Mint after the race
there will be booths for all to en¬
joy, live music will be by Way Out
West, and the event is produced
by the Mint, Mother Ix)de, and
Hot ’N’ Hunky, with help from
the Council of Emperors and
Empresses and the COITS.
Stanley and I would like to thank
everyone for all their coopera¬
tion, and you can find us at the
Tripple R Resort for the follow-

Karl's Calendar

THURSDAY 5/21

MoUnari For Mayor Cam¬
paign Kick-Off and Rally,
Trocadero Transfer, 8-11 p.m., en¬
tertainment by Sharon McNight
and other surprise guests.

FRIDAY 5/22

Cheaters M/C Memorial
Day Weekend Run, May 22-
25, $95.

Spring Fling Party, Kimo’s,

8 p.m., hosts Mr. and Ms. Bunny
Rob and Traci, show and food,
benefit AIDS Food Bank.

Leola Jiles Concert, Great
American Music Hall, 8:30 p.m.,
$ 10 .

Leather Fantasies, Troca¬
dero Transfer, 10 p.m.-5 a.m., $5
at the door with leather, $7 with¬
out.

SATURDAY 5/23

Bloody Mary Party, Pilsner
Inn, 6 a.m.-2 p.m., every Satur¬
day and Sunday, $2.50, hosts Ron
and Olin.

Muff’s Morning Movie
(Gypsy), Men’s Room, 10:30 a.m.,
host Mark.

California Eagles M/C Fix
Your Bike Party, S.F. Eagle,
noon.

Mama Billy’s 35th Birth¬
day Party, Kimo’s, 8 p.m., food
and show.

SUNDAY 5/24

Golden Gate Bridge Walk,
celebrating bridge’s 50th and
Mama Billy’s 35th birthdays,
Kimo’s, 6 a.m., ’30s and 40s
costume contest at 9 a.m.

Golden Gate Bridge Party,
Trax, noon-7 p.m., $1 drink spe¬
cial.

Gay Fathers Beer Bust, S.F.
Eagle, 3-6 p.m., $7.

50 Golden Gate Years Cel¬
ebration, Galleria, dancing

9 p.m. ’til dawn, tickets $15 ad¬
vance, $20 at the door, music by
Michael Garrett (I-Beam) and
Odis Campbell (Castro Station).

MONDAY 5/25

16th Annual Great Tricy¬
cle Race, festivities start S.F.
Eagle at noon, race starts 2 p.m.,
ends at the Mint with entertain¬
ment, 50/50 raffle, food, games,
and fun.

Maury’s Margueritas on
Memorial Day, Trax, noon-
7 p.m., $1.25.

It’s Not Too Hot For Sum¬
mer Beer Bust, S.F. Eagle,
3-6 p.m., $7, benefit GSL/Series
’87, and the San Francisco Flag
Corps.

Gemini Party, Kokpit,
7:30 p.m., raffle to benefit CUAV,
food and fun, host Sissler Willie.

Compiled by Diedre •

ing two days after the race, where
we will be getting our thank you’s
and sunrays!

After the riders depart from
the Eagle it will be time for the
Fire Crystal Ebony Star Produc¬
tion Company to set up for their
beerbust benefit for the GSL/
Series ’87 and the S.F. Flag
Corps, which will be from 3 ’til
6 p.m. with a $7 door charge that
will include sizzling entertain¬
ment, probably Deanna, and all
the beer you can drink, plus a
fabulous meal.

The following day, Tuesday, if
you are still standing, you can get
over to the Tavern Guild meeting
at the Village, which will start at
1 p.m. Bill Martin and his staff
always put on a good time for
everyone.

Get your ticket orders in now
for the 15th anniversary celebra¬
tion of Robert Michael Produc¬
tions Closet Ball Saturday June
20, at the Giftcenter Pavilion.
Tickets range from $10 to $50,
and more info is available by call¬
ing 554-8518.

June 1, 2, and 3 will be the
Mother Lode’s anniversary, and
will include a lot of fun and sur¬
prises for everyone to enjoy. For
further info call 928-6006. And
watch for their grand opening at
the Mint. •

One of the contestants in the Mr. Leather SF contest was
very popular with the crowd (Photo: R. Pruzan)

GLOE's Womens
Writers Workshop
Reading

On the evening of Saturday,
June 20, you will again be treated
to the readings of the Women’s
Writers Workshop, an outreach
program for Operation Concern
—Gay and Lesbian Outreach to
Elders. The event will be held at
7 p.m. at Modern Times Book¬
store, located at 968 Valencia,
San Francisco.

The women will read some new
writings and some of their better
known pieces and skits. The
group, also known as “The
Dauntless Durable Dykes,” will
provide you with humor, tragedy,
love, skits and perhaps a song.

These older lesbians do it all
with style and flair—revealing
much of their own life experi¬
ences.

The evening’s entertainment
will be a benefit to raise
publishing funds for their up¬
coming anthology. Donation is
$5. Join them for an evening that
will leave von wanting more.

For further information, call
Robin at 665-1520. •

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Aunt Oriane and her niece Fina Torres' Oriane

Warren

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SWINGING AND ROCKING

Like Argentina’s Camila the
Venezuelan-French co-produc-
tion Oriane unfolds with too
much predictability to achieve
the apparently intended sus¬
pense.

Director and co-writer Fina
Torres was born in Venezuela but
educated in France, as was Marie
(Daniela Silverio), the protago¬
nist of this, her first feature. In¬
heriting her Aunt Oriane’s haci¬
enda, which she had visited once
in early puberty, Marie returns
with her husband to check the
place out before selling it. She
retraces her girlhood steps and
reviews her memories from an
adult perspective.

Within the flashbacks to
Marie’s previous visit are more
flashbacks of Oriane’s childhood
and adolescence as young Marie
snoops with a diligence the CIA
would envy, until she learns her
aunt’s secret, which is guarded by
the mysterious housekeeper
(“What’s buried must stay
buried”) who acts like a refugee
from Bad Day at Black Rock.

With three Orianes and two
Maries the time tripping can get
confusing, but it’s worth waiting
for her adopted brother Sergio
(Luis Armando Castillo) to grow
up. There’s an extremely sexy,
scene where he’s rocking in a
chair while Oriane swings on a
swing, burning with teenage lust
as they move toward each other
and away, toward and away...

The photography (Jean-
Claude Larrieu) is lush, the pace
slow, the film a triumphant debut

for a new director. (York)

DON'T LOOK AT
THE SCREEN!

Evil Dead II is fast-paced,
visually stylish, utterly incoher¬
ent and gross beyond belief.
Bruce Campbell stumbles on the
cabin in the woods where the
Book of the Dead, out of print for
700 years, has unleashed evil
spirits. They get Campbell’s
girlfriend, who rises from the
grave and dances—corpseogra-
phy by Bimbomation.

After a period of self-abuse,
Campbell is joined by two aca¬
demics and two rustics. Before
you can say “Gag me with an
eyeball,” the Thing in the Cellar
does just that to a woman who
then goes into the woods and
becomes one with nature.

So it goes until the one-and-a-
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Campbell goes back and forth —
try to translate the Book and lay
the spirits to rest, until the next
sequel. In one climactic fight
Campbell plays Sigourney Weav¬
er to an Alienes(\ue mother.

Even the most rabid horror-
phile should recognize that direc¬
tor Sam Raimi is kidding with
this one. On a so-bad-it’s-good
level it’s a lot of fun. (area
theaters)

MURDER FOR TEENS

I may never look at a teenager
the same way after seeing River ’s
Edge, a deeply disturbing drama
whose impact is greater than the
sum of its parts. Based on an in¬
cident that occurred in Milpitas,
it concerns a youth (Daniel Roe¬
buck) who kills a girl and shows
her body to their mutual friends.

Everyone is strangely un¬
moved by their friend’s death,
but it turns into a game of Scru¬
ples as they wrestle with what to
do about the killer in their midst.
Layne (Crispin Glover) wants
them to cover up the crime and
leave the state. Matt (Keanu
Reeves) won’t confront his friend
but secretly reports the murder to
the police.

Their role model is Feck (Den¬
nis Hopper), who is practically
brain-dead. The kids go to him
for dope, which they call “Feck-
weed” in his honor.

Many of the young actors in
River’s Edge should be heard
from again, with Reeves a par¬
ticular standout. Glover, the
father in Back to the Future, is
too crazed as Layne. He should
have observed how Hopper stays
on the edge without going over.
Joshua Miller is perhaps the
most chilling as Matt’s 12-year-
old brother, already committed to
drugs and violence.

The ending offers a ray of hope
for some characters — enough to
keep River’s Edge from being
totally depressing, but not
enough to keep it from being a
shattering experience. (Vogue)
•

Near

(Continued from page 26)

It being a Mother’s Day con¬
cert, Near spoke a lot about
motherhood. She read an 1870
proclamation by the creator of
the holiday, Julia Ward Howe,
urging mothers to lead the fight
for disarmament. She encour¬
aged anyone who possibly could
to form a friendship with their
mother, or find a substitute
mother, or “a really great woman
friend who will be with you until
the end of your life.”

Her own mother was in the au¬
dience, and stood up after some¬
one yelled, “Show us your moth¬
er!” The crowd occasionally got
politely rowdy that way. Near’s
younger sister and sister-in-law
were also in the audience—‘The
mothers in my family are all
here’—and she thanked them for
“raising our kids,” because “My
older sister and I have not chosen
to go that route.”

The evening began with a
20-minute recital by the five-
member Dance Brigade, of
which Near’s sister-in-law is a
founder. The best of their five
numbers was a comic, acrobatic
dance of courtship between two
women to the tune of “Miss
Celie’s Blues (Sister)” from The
Color Purple. The troupe is com¬
mitted to social change, and Near
promised to reveal how she com¬
bines her own social conscious¬
ness successfully with a career in
music in a May 18 workshop at
La Pena.

In her first set Near sang seven
songs in 35 minutes, including

Music and Well Being

The Society of Gay and Les¬
bian Composers presents Music
and Well Being Sunday, June 21
at 4 p.m. at the Colorbox Gallery,
541 Hayes St. A donation of $5
will benefit arts workshops for
people with AIDS run by Artists
for Community Life which is
sponsoring the concert in con¬
junction with its Art and Well Be¬
ing exhibition.

The concert will feature the
premiere of Robert Chesley’s
Theme with Variations on a
poem by James Agee, sung by
soprano Rebeka Levy and accom¬
panied by Steve Key, piano. Other
first performances will include
the Sonata by Mark Koval, for
violin (Steve Damron) and the
composer on piano, and excerpts
from Jon O’Bergh’s The Ghost
Poem, text by Linda Gregg, for
alto, percussion, and piano.

Matthew McQueen and Karl
Brown will sing their familiar
song Killer Purses and a new
song. Cross the River, to a taped
synthesizer accompaniment.
Returning will be Louis Sacriste’s
Duo for flute and violincello (Gail
Edwards and Gwyneth Davis) and
Jane Gernen’s Opus #1 and Un¬
titled, performed by pianist
Stephen Damonte, who with
Valerie Tisdel will present Three
Pieces for Violin and Piano by
Tchaikovsky, SGLC’s unofficial
honorary composer in the public
domain.

This will be the second gay
pride week concert given by the
SGLC with Artists for Commu¬
nity Life. Other activities last
year included the Cable Car
Award-winning Gay Games II In¬
augural Concert sung by the S.F.
Lesbian/Gay Chorus, and a
spring concert broadcast by
KQED-FM with composers’ in¬
terviews in their regular classical
music programming. A fall con¬
cert is in the works. The SGLC
meets the third Thursday of each
month (June 18) at 7:30 p.m., at
Mr. Natural’s Electronic Class¬
room, 1911 Hayes. •

“Wrap the Sun around You,”
“How Bold!” and a plainer,
simpler version of “Plain and
Simple Love” than is heard on
the new album. The second set
lasted for more than an hour and
consisted of nine songs plus two
encores, including a dynamite
version of Gris Williamson’s
“Waterfall.” The two women had
just performed together in Port¬
land and Seattle.

The highlight of the evening
was a medley that began with
“Harriet Tubman.” Near ex¬
plained how spirituals were
America’s first “songs of strug¬
gle,” containing code words that
passed messages between blacks
without the authorities catching
on. “Oh Mary Don’t You Weep”
was sung as an example before
the current struggle was men¬
tioned: AIDS. “I hope we learn
to love safely,” Near said in part,
“and wrap a rainbow around the
whole world and learn to rise
above this one.” This led into
the most beautiful rendition of
“Over the Rainbow” I’ve ever
heard, which earned Near a
standing ovation.

Rumor has it Near will be back
later in the year touring with a
full band. They’ll have to go some
to beat her current accompanist,
John Bucchino.

The Mother’s Day angle made
this a special, once-a-year if not
once-in-a-lifetime concert, and
Holly Near made it a delight, be¬
ing her own focus for the di¬
verse, seemingly incompatible
elements. As for top-40 succcess,
if Joni Mitchell did it, why not
Near? •

BAY AREA REPORTER

MAY 21. 1987 PAGE 38

Frameline Presents

The May 21 edition of Frame-
line Presents will feature Los
Angeles Artist John Goss’ Wild
Life, a video portrait of two
15-year-old gay latinos. The piece
combines documentary-style in¬
terviews with fictional segments
in which the young men act out
their fantasized “wild” day in
Los Angeles. The May 21 show
begins with three tapes by Dean
Decent and sneak previews of
films and videos in Frameline’s
forthcoming 11th San Francisco
International Lesbian and Gay
Film Festival, June 19-28.

Frameline Presents is seen
every other Thursday on Viacom
Cable Channel 25, San Francis¬
co, at 8 p.m.

Frameline continuously re¬
views video works for presenta¬
tion on Frameline Presents. To
submit a tape or for more infor¬
mation on Frameline or the forth¬
coming festival, contact Frame¬
line at 861-5245. •

Join the Band

To celebrate its 10th anniver¬
sary of participation in the San
Francisco Gay Freedom Day
Parade, the San Francisco Gay
Freedom Day Marching Band
and Twirling Corps announces
the beginning of a major mem¬
bership drive. Tables will be set
up on the weekends in the Castro
area. No auditions are required
to join the Band. There are no
monthly dues to pay. If you do not
have an instrument, one may be
available for your use. There are
also nonmusician positions avail¬
able with the Band and the many

other performing groups with the
San Francisco Band Foundation.
More details can be obtained by
calling the Band office at
621-5619. •

Gays For Molinari

A kickoff for Supervisor John
Molinari’s campaign for mayor
of San Francisco will be held
Thursday, May 21, at the Troca-
dero Transfer, 520 4th St., from
8 to 11 p.m. Supervisor Harry
Britt will introduce the co-chairs
of Gay and Lesbian San Francis¬
cans for Molinari, and the enter¬
tainment will feature Sharon
McNight plus surprise guests.
Admission is free. •

LA Memorial Event

Memorial Day, May 25, there
will be memorial events at
McCadden Place from 4:30 to
7:30 p.m. There will be a showing
of garden and galleries, and in¬
troduction of the Annual Memo¬
rial Book. Also there will be a
eulogy for David Spencer (1937-
1987), founding curator of
McCadden Place Collection and
memorial declaration for others.
Support for the Names Project of
the March on Washington will be
announced at 1428 N. McCadden
Place, Old Hollywood. Parking
Location Signed. Information at
(213)463-3928,(213)466-2724. •

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SPORTS & FITNESS

by Jerry R. De Young

After 23 years of organized gay bowling in San
Francisco, a retrospective glance at some plums
plucked in the past promises to proffer a pleasur¬
able pastime. With that in mind, here are the
TGWBL winning teams back to the Winter of
81-82, the first season in which permanent records
began to be kept on this league.

81-82W:

Park Bowl

-F 461/2

- 191/2

S28:

Play With It, Ltd.

- 1 - 441/2

- 241/2

82-83W:

Pin Pals

-f-45

-24

83S:

Play With It, Ltd. One + 66 V 2

- 251/2

83-84W:

Japantown Bowling

Bombers

-1-64

-28

84S:

Pilsner Potlickers

-h60

-28

84-85W:

Play With It, Ltd.

-f-601/2

- 271/2

85S:

Pilsner I

-f58

-32

85-86W:

Pilsner I

-f62

-26

86S:

Play With It, Ltd.

-F 551/2

- 241/2

86-87W:

The Leftovers

-f63

-25

Most of these topflight teams still compete and
yet strive to recapture the legendary TGWBL
trophy, as several have done in the past. However,
there are quite a few hot new teams just as deter¬
mined to present the impressive trophy to their
sponsors. Gazing into the depths of the enchanted
bowling ball, some surprise upsets are definitely
in the offing!

Although it takes the combined efforts of all
team members to achieve the excellent results cited
above, frequently contained within these con¬
solidated scores lies extraordinarily large individ¬
ual contributions. That is precisely the case regard¬
ing the following lane-masters who added so many
positive points to the impressive records of the
above distinguished teams.

81-82W:

Eddie Carmick

HSG 289

John Brown

HSS 667

82S:

Keith Ray

HSG 257

Aubrey Palmer

HSS 691

82-83W:

Tony Vance

HSG 264

David Hobler

HSS 705

83S:

lowell Hills

HSG 267

Rob Mallin

HSS 667

83-84W:

John Rogowski

Keith Ray

HSG 269
HSS 655

84S:

Adrian Stenson

Keith Ray

HSG 266
HSS 696

84-85W:

Adrian Stenson

Eric Tuff

HSG278
HSS 671

85S:

Keith Ray

Larry Kramer

HSF 262
HSS 649

85-86W:

Adrian Stenson

Hank Gavin

HSG 269
HSS 657

86S:

Larry Kramer

Tom Sipple

HSG 277
HSS 686

86-87W:

Tom Sipple

R. McPherson

HSG 277
HSS 711

The outstanding records of these fine teams and
bowlers combine to form a magnificent unbroken
history of organized gay bowling in which every¬
one who scans these accounts can take immense
pride. Another source of exaltation lies in the
knowledge that organized gay bowling in San Fran¬
cisco was born of courage and nourished by dedica¬
tion, and today rewards its supporters with greater
dividends than ever before.

What better way to reinforce the above hypoth¬
esis than to inscribe the names of the inspired
bowlers who presently contribute so very much to
the positive image of the gay bowling leagues.
Therefore, here are the brilliant TGMBL 200-1-
shooting stars whose skills so dramatically
highlighted the evening of May 11 at Park Bowl.

Jeff Heppmansperger 224

Ken Auletta 215

Pat Conlon 211

Hugh Smith 205 204

With the passage of precious time, officers step
forth to impart their talents to the league, then step
back; teams surface for a brief moment, then sub-
murge; individual bowlers blaze across the starry
firmament like fiery comets, then fade, consum¬
ed by their own incredible energy. However,
through it all, the greatest glory belongs to the
league itself, and you, my friend, are the league
and always will be. •

PARK BOWL

TAVERN GUILD BOWLING LEAGUES

Team Standings

TAVERN GUILD
MONDAY LEAGUE
(Week 5 of 19 - as of 5/11/87)

1 . Frantic Finishers II

17

3

2. Pilsner Powderpuffs

16

4

3. Kokpit Pacers

13

7

4. Play With It, Ltd.

12V&

7Vi

5. Park Bowl

12

8

6. Capricorn Coffee

11

9

7. Station Go Aheads 11 9

8. Alcatraz Federal BBS lOV^s 9V^

9. Mr. Pilsner 10 10

10. Pilsner Pntless Sisters 9 11

11. The Pet Stop Bees 9 H

12. JustTrux 9 n

13. Welcome Home 6 14

14. Pet Stop Cockatails 6 14

15. Watering Hole 6 14

TAVERN GUILD
WEDNESDAY LEAGUE
(Week 6 of 22-as of 5/13/87)

1. The Leftovers

20

4

2. Pilsner Potlickers

17

7

3. Pilsner I

17

3

4. Strike It, Bitch

16

8

(Continued on page 44)

COME JOIN THE FUN I

The United States Gay Open
is the oldest gay tennis tournament In the country.
This Memorial Day Weekend the matches
will be held at the following locations:

O

Saturday, May 23:

DC Berkeley, Golden Gate Park & S.F. City College

Sunday, May 24:

UC Berkeley & Golden Gate Park

Monday, May 25 (Finals):

Golden Gate Park

For more Information,
call Andre Lallas at 863-3707

Bowlers are known far and wide for their great times (Photo: Photo Graphics/Darlene)

UNITED STATES GAY OPEN
SAN FRANCISCO • MAY 23-25. 1987

BAY AREA REPORTER MAY 21. 1987 PAGE 42

Team Tennis Race Heats Up

by Les Balmain

In the first weekend of play in
Round 3 of Gay Tennis Federa¬
tion Team Tennis Saturday, May
9, Zephyr Realty defeated Nella/
Schmidt Insurance 64-51, which
moved them from 6th into 4th
place. And on Sunday, May 10,
Community Rentals had a tre¬
mendous victory over the White
Swallow, winning by a whopping
25 games, score 66-41. “Our big
win,” said a smiling Tom Kelly,
team captain, “should put us in
first place!”

However, in the second week of
play in Round 3 Saturday, May
16, Lupann’s Restaurant defeat¬
ed Leticia’s Restaurant 66-49 to
give them a strong hold on 3rd
place. But the big surprise came
on Sunday, May 17, when the
Galleon Bar & Restaurant down¬
ed Roto Rooter 64-44, winning by
20 games, which put them ahead
of Community Rentals for 1st
place by just one game.

Round 3 team standings as of

May 17 are:

1. Galleon

189 126

2. Community Rentals

199 137

3. Lupann’s

179 157

4. Zephyr

174 161

5. Roto Rooter

159 177

6. White Swallow

155 177

7. Nella/Schmidt

152 188

8. Leticia’s

119 203

It’s almost halfway through
the season and the race for the
top four spots for the playoffs
has the teams bunched into two
groups, four teams batting over
.500 — The Galleon, Community
Rentals, Lupann’s, and Zephyr
Realty; and four teams under
.500 — Roto Rooter, White Swal¬
low, Nella/Schmidt Insurance,
and Leticia’s. Although Leticia’s
is lagging in last place, they are
improving with each match. They
have increased their games won
column successively: 1st match,
28 games won; 2nd match, 42
games won; and 3rd match, 49
games won. They are due for
some upsets in the coming
season!

FOURTH ROUND SCHEDULE

Saturday, May 30: Community
Rentals vs. Roto Rooter

Sunday, May 31: Lupann’s vs.
Zephyr Realty

Saturday, Jime 6: White Swallow
vs. Leticia’s

Sunday, June 7: Galleon vs.
Nella/Schmidt

All matches begin at 9 a.m. at
the Sidney Peixotto playground
tennis courts on 15th Street, two
blocks west of Castro Street. •

Russo Repeats

by Lauren Ward

Twenty-one teams sent repre¬
sentatives to the Bear last Satur¬
day to play for the title in the S.F.
Pool Association’s ninth Most
Valuable Player Tournament.

Jim Russo, representing the
Inside Out Rinos, sailed through
the field to claim his second con¬
secutive MVP crown. Russo had
a top-four finish in the recent
8-Ball Championship and is cur-,
rently the league’s top game-
winner, although rated eighth in
overall winning percentage. He
combines devastating accuracy
with excellent cue-ball control
packaged in an effortless shoot¬
ing style.

Second place went to the Bear
Thugs’ Joe Ankenbrandt. In con¬
trast to Russo’s fluidity Joe might
best be described as animated
and explosive. His three-rail kick
shot which led to his victory over
John Schou was probably the
most spectacular shot of the tour¬
nament.

It was appropriate that Lisa
Duncan would represent the de¬

fending city and state champion
DeLuxe Ducks. Duncan was the
MVP of West Coast Challenge
XIV and is currently #2 of the
league’s 141 rated members. She
finished second in her last ap¬
pearance at an MVP tourney, and
would settle for third today.

If you spot a pool player in red
or yellow patent leather shoes it’s
probably John Schou, who repre¬
sented the Watering Hole Buffa¬
loes in rounding out the top four.

Playing areas for the contest
were graciously provided by the
Bear, the Badlands, and Castro
Station.

The league’s 14-week regular
season ends this week, with the
top three teams in each division
advancing to post-season play¬
offs. The next city champion
team will represent S.F. in West
Coast Challenge XV in San
Diego. The top-four individuals
from the All-Star Tournament to
be played June 6 are also San
Diego-bound. Dial JOE-POOL
for information. •

San Francisco
Pool Association Standings

(Week 13 of 14 - as of 5/12/87)

DIVISION I

DIVISION III

Travelers High Life 134- 74 0.644
Park Bowl Party Lines 120- 88 0.577

Bear Thugs 119- 89 0.572

Amelia’s #1 105-103 0.505

Pilsner Emperors 102-106 0.490

Maud’s 86-122 0.413

Inside Out of It 83-125 0.399

A Special Brood 83-125 0.399

Deluxe Ducks 165- 43 0.793

Watering Hole Buffaloes 119- 89 0.572
Detour Destroyers 95- 81 0.540
Park Bowl Pockettes 105-103 0.505
Badlands Ballbusters 97-111 0.466
Castro Station Masters 83-125 0.399
Pendulum PhD’s 75-133 0.361

Folsom Falcons 66-126 0.344

DIVISION II

DIVISION IV

Badlands Badasses
A Special Breed
Maud’s Squad
Inside Out Rinos
Pilsner Pluggers
Bear Bottoms
Amelia’s Furies
Sofia’s Choice

152- 56 0.731
110- 98 0.529
109- 99 0.524
102-106 0.490
96-112 0.462
96-113 0.459
95-113 0.457
73-135 0.351

Eagle Creek Chaos II 137- 55

White Swallow’s Back! 129- 63 0.672
Deluxe Accommodations 104- 88 0.542
Castro Sta. Commanders 102- 90 0.531
Folsom Bushmen 76-100 0.432

Watering Hole Bisons 51- 92 0.357
Sofia’s Seconds 64-126 0.337

Detour 3D’s 56-151 0.271

Memorial Day Sports Line-Up

by Rick Thoman

The Memorial Day weekend is
over-flowing with opportunities
for San Francisco’s gay athletic
community. From bowling to tri¬
cycle racing, the three-day week¬
end offers an abundance of rec¬
reational activities, including
several national gay sports cham¬
pionships.

The 1987 National Gay Bowl¬
ing Tournament will take place in
New Orleans, starting May 22
and continuing through the
weekend. San Francisco will be
weU represented in the men’s and
women’s individual, doubles, and
team competitions.

In Los Angeles, the National
Gay Volleyball Association will
hold its annual tournament.
Although San Francisco’s team
did not make the cutoff for par¬
ticipation in the tournament, the
city will be represented by the
Half Moon Bay team, comprised
primarily of San Francisco
players. Los Angeles, Seattle, and
Denver are seen as the top con¬
tenders for the national title.
Opening rounds start Friday
night, with final elimination
rounds Sunday.

Here in San Francisco, the gay
Tennis Tournament will take
place Saturday, Sunday, and
Monday in Golden Gate Park.
San Francisco’s Memorial Day
tournament was one of the first
gay tennis tournament in the na¬
tion and continues to be one of
the most popular, attracting par¬
ticipants from all over the United
States and Canada in what is
always top-quality competition.

San Francisco’s Track & Field
Club will run at the Pacific Asso-
ciation/TAC Championships in

Los Gatos. This will be San Fran¬
cisco’s fifth trip to the PA/TAC
Championships, and the team
has traditionally done well at the
meet. The 1987 S.F. track squad
looks strong in both the sprints
and the relays, along with some
surprises in the middle distances
and field events. The meet starts
at 10 a.m., Saturday, May 23, at
the Los Gatos High School track.

'And don't forget
the Golden Gate
Bridge 50th anni¬
versary bridge
walk!'

The S.F. Gay Softball League
will disperse to various locations
outside California for the long
weekend. Several teams, includ¬
ing the EndUp, Cafe San Marcos,
and the Pilsner Inn, will par¬
ticipate in Seattle’s popular
Memorial Day weekend tourna¬
ment, while other teams are set to
play at the annual tournament in
Dallas.

The FrontRunners offer their
usual run from Stow Lake in
Golden Gate Park on Saturday at
9:30 a.m. and their Sunday run
will be across the Bay in Walnut
Creek. This special Sunday run
along the base of Mt. Diablo will
be followed by a potluck brunch.
Car pools for the event will leave
from the Church Street Safeway
at 9 a.m. (For more information,
contact 673-7303.)

Different Spokes Bicycle club
has scheduled a ride through the

Marin Headlands Saturday, May
23. Meet at McLaren Lodge in
Golden Gate Park at 11 a.m. and
bring a lunch, water, and a
helmet. If that ride sounds a lit¬
tle too challenging. Different
Spokes has the usual Decide-
And-Ride both Saturday and
Sunday. Cyclists should gather at
McLaren Lodge at 1 p.m. Satur¬
day or 10 a.m. Sunday, where
they will decide on a particular
course and pace that is geared
towards including all levels of
riders.

The San Francisco Tsunami
Masters Swim Club is recovering
from its debut at the U.S. Masters
Swim Chammpionships in Palo
Alto last weekend. However, a
regular practice session will be
held Sunday, May 24, from
10 a.m. to noon at King Pool,
located at 3rd Street and Carrol
Avenue. Anyone interested in
finding out more about the
Tsunami Masters swimmers can
call 931-6645 (ext. 403) for details.

For those spectators and par¬
ticipants into more “unusual”
events, the annual Great Tricycle
Race will take place Monday,
May 25. Teams of two will race
their tricycles on a course that
will take them from the Eagle to
the Mint on Market Street in
what has become a traditional af¬
ternoon of fun.

And don’t forget the Golden
Gate Bridge 50th anniversary
bridge walk! The San Francisco
Hiking Club will meet at 6 a.m..
at Harvey Milk Plaza May 24 to
take Muni to the coast and then
follow the coastal trail to the
bridge to join the throng walking
across. Lunch will follow. •

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BAY AREA REPORTER MAY 21. 1987 PAGE 43

Rawhide, Stallion, Metro
And Rainbow Win Big

by Tom Vindeed

Close games were not the
order of the day last Sunday when
almost every team won going
away.

Leading the way was the Raw-
hide, dumping and slumping
The Bear team 20-7. The Stallion
kicked Amelia’s 12-1, while the
Metro snapped Ginger’s 24-9.

Wait! It’s not over. The league¬
leading End-Up rang up the
Phone Booth 21-1, and the Vil¬
lage took the measure of Hunks
19-6. Those Rainbow Roos
jumped over the Cafe women
14-5, and Superstar Video kept
pace with everyone by running
past El Rio Tortugas 16-2. In a
slug fest the Kokpit defeated the
Cafe men 18-13, and the Eagle
handed Ginger’s its second loss
of the day 20-14.

There was one decent game.
The on-rushing Pendulum hand¬
ed the Pilsner Inn team its first
loss of the season by a 7-3 count.
Bob Viereck now has a winning
record as a pitcher in 1987.

Due to the Memorial Day
weekend there will not be any
games this Sunday, but a lot is
happening within the league and
elsewhere.

Elsewhere is the Mint’s annual
Tricycle Race Monday the 25th
beginning at The Eagle at noon.
This year the Shanti Project will
benefit from this fun event. Con¬
tact Mark Friese at 431-3470 for
booth or contestant info.

Later that day the talented pair
of Deanna Jones and Tony Tre¬
viso will host a beer bust at The
Eagle to benefit the World Series

and the S.F. Flag Corps.

Down the road a bit Jerry Pep¬
per will host Brown Bay Day June
14. For a paltry $1 you can pur-

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chase an unmarked brown bag
that contains a fabulous gift
worth at least $10. The host bars
for the event are Amelia’s, End-
Up, Eagle, Cafe San Marcos,
Pilsner Inn, and the Rawhide.
Call 821-5830 or 482-1372 for
more information.

Have a safe holiday.
STANDINGS

Cable Car Division

Superstar Video

5-1

Rawhide

5-1

Stallion

5-2

Rainbow

4-3

Eagle

4-3

Music

(Continued from page 26)

songs: “The Earth is never satis-
fied/It keeps swallowing our men
and women/Blessed is the corpse/
That finds a resting place in the
grave...”

In other songs, the group turns
to God and begs for peace on
Earth.

The entire album is performed
a cappella as a South African
tribal chant. It’s so rich and har¬
monious that it wasn’t until half¬
way through side A that I realized
there were no instruments in use.
Parts of it are in a thickly ac¬
cented English, parts in the
South African tribal language,
Zulu.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo is
a stunning group that should be
heard.

FORCES FAVOURITES
(Rounder Records)

This is a compilation album
that features a number of South
African bands performing anti¬
war and anti-apartheid songs.
These bands refuse to conform to
the state-controlled requirements
for radio airplay, which of course
assures that they will remain vir¬
tually unknown in their own land.

There’s a lot of anger in this ,
music. Songs like Aeroplane’s
“National Madness’’ or “Shot
Down in the Streets” by the
Cherry Faced Lurchers reflect the
violence and suppression most
South Africans must live with.
It’s all very thought provoking,
and listening to it will better help
Westerners understand the frus¬
trations of South Africans. The
music’s message might be too
simplistic for some tastes, but
these are justifiably angry peo¬
ple, and they want to get their
point across as quickly and effi¬
ciently as possible.

Forces Favourites might well
be purchased in conjunction with
Ladysmith Black Mambazo. They
complement each other, one with
its haunting poetry, the other
with its angry passion, and to¬
gether they paint musical por¬
traits of a sad and ravaged land.

Bowling

(Continued from page 41)

5. Rain’s Head Bar

15

9

6. Pendulum Pandas

15

9

7. Pilsner Pin Cuins

141/2

51/2

8. Play With It, Ltd.

12

12

9. Big Apple Deli

12

12

10. 4 Your Eyes Only

12

12

11. DK’s Unmentionables

12

12

12. The Rams & Ewe

11

13

13. The Pendulum Pieces

11

9

14. Gutter Girls

lOVi

131^

15. Park Bowl

10

14

16. Bow K

10

14

17. S.F. Eagle

10

14

18. Pure-ln-No-Sense

8V^

151/2

19. Pilsner 5000

8

16

20. Pilsner Opus I

VAt

161/!

21. Pilsner Pntless Sisters

6

18

THURSDAY TAVERN
GUILD LEAGUE

Amelia’s 2-4

Cafe Women 2-5

Bear 2-5

Ginger’s 2-5

El Rio 0-6

Golden Gate Division
End-Up 5-0

Pilsner Inn 5-1

Kokpit 5-1

Pendulum 4-1

The Village 4-2

Metro 4-3

Cafe Men 2-4

Phone Booth 0-6

Hunks 0-7

•

LOVE'S A LIAR
Martee LeBow
(Atlantic Records)

Martee LeBow is a rock and
roller. All her life she’s been
listening to people like Bruce
Springsteen, Tom Petty, and
John Cougar Mellencamp, and it
is they who have greatly influ¬
enced her style.

Martee’s been around for
quite some time. Since her teens
she’s been singing on radio com¬
mercials, doing back-up work,
and composing music for movies
like last year’s Lily in Love. And
now, the lady’s long-awaited mo¬
ment of stardom is at hand with
this, her second solo LP.

Love's A Liar is a well-
produced rock and roll album,
and LeBow’s rich voice domi¬
nates every cut. She wrote most
of the album’s 10 songs, and puts
a lot of passion into her music.
She pays homage on many of the
cuts to the male rockers she so
admires. Indeed, on the title
song, the guitar playing is very
Mellencamp-ish, while LeBow
sings as though she were doing a
Springsteen impersonation. She
pulls it off beautifully.

This is a good album.

TANGO IN THE NIGHT
Fleetwood Mac
(Warner Bros.)

Fleetwood Mac’s new album
should win an award for the pret¬
tiest cover of the year. As for the
music within, it’s reasonably well
produced soft rock, not bad, but
not exciting or memorable either.

The whole Fleetwood Mac
crew took turns writing and per¬
forming solo on the dozen cuts
that make up Tango in the Night.
Perhaps that’s why the album
isn’t the success it should be.
These talented singers/musicians
should be working together, not
separating themselves from one
another. The whole album has a
terribly disjointed feel to it.

Christine McVie has the rich¬
est and most emotional voice,
while Stevie Nicks continues to
sound scratchier and more off
key with each passing album.

All in all. Tango in the Night is
an acceptable, if forgettable,
work from a band that can do a
lot better. •

(Week 6 of 21 - as of 5/14/87)

1. Pilsner 4 Play

19

5

2. Park Bowl

17

7

3. At Your Service

17

7

4. Play With It, Ltd.

16

8

5. Just Trax

16

8

6. Vera’s Vinyl

151/2

81/

7. Special Moments

15

9

8. Trax Trash

14

10

9. The Hole

121/ 111/

10. Superstar Video

12

8

11. Miss Hits

111/2 121/

12. The Clean-Up Artists

111/ 121/2

13. Wooden Horse

11

13

14. 3 Hits & a Ms.

10

14

15. Moments Cafe

10

10

16. Rockin’ Robins

9

15

17. Bowl Me Over

7

17

18. The 69 Club

6

18

19. American Pie

5

19

20. 18th Street Services

5

19

Compiled by Jerry R. De Young •

BAY AREA REPORTER MAY 21, 1987 PAGE 44

1

Lesbian History
Moves to LA

The West Coast Lesbian Col¬
lections is proud to announce it
is re-opening at a new location
and under new sponsorship, con¬
tinuing its service to the commu¬
nity as a library and archives
dedicated to the preservation of
lesbian history and culture. The
change is accompanied by a re¬
naming and renewed commit¬
ment to the future of lesbian
archiving.

Please address all your cor¬
respondence and mailings to:
Mazer Collection, 3271 North
Raymond Ave., Altadena, CA
91001, (818) 791-4561.

The WCLC’s move to the Los

Angeles area is effective as of
April 1. Re-named in honor of
June Mazer, a pioneering Los
Angeles lesbian activist, the June
Mazer Lesbian Collections is now
affiliated with Connexxus, a
social service agenqf in West
Hollywood serving the lesbian
community.

Housed in the Bay Area since
1981, the WCLC is gratified to
pass on to the women of Connex¬
xus the lesbian materials which
we have cared for. We encourage
all of you who have worked with
us to give your support to the
June Mazer Lesbian Collections,
and let us continue to build a
home on the West Coast for the
records of lesbian life. •

Electric City

Electric City would like to
televise your special events for
the month of June on our com¬
munity calendar at no cost to
your organization. Call 861-7131
ASAP. Deadline is May 21 for a
May 28 airdate. First come, first
served, as space is limited. •

Black and Blue Ball

The Black and Blue Ball 2, a
fundraiser to benefit the AIDS
Emergency Fund, will be held on
Sunday, June 21, at the Starlight
Roof high atop the Sir Francis
Drake Hotel on Union Square.
With a magnificent panoramic
view of San Francisco as its
backdrop, the Black and Blue
Ball will party from 7:30 p.m.
until 12:30 a.m.

Highlights of the evening in¬
clude performances by some of
San Francisco’s best comedy
talent. Headlining will be the the¬
atrical comedy group. Faultline.
Belle Nolan, disc jockey for Ber¬
keley’s KBLX-FM radio, will per¬
form as emcee and guest dj.

Prizes will be given away! The
grand prize is a trip for two to
Hawaii, courtesy of The Ameri¬
can Quest, Inc. travel services of
Pleasanton. Other prizes include
champagne from Gloria Ferrer of
Sonoma, wine from George
Saintsbury of Napa, and dinner
for two at a variety of fine San
Francisco restaurants. Hors
d’oeuvres and champagne will be
served throughout the evening.

Tickets are $25 per person and
available through advance pur¬
chase only. Attendance is limited
to 170. To reserve your tickets
and for more information, call
931-9768. No tickets will be sold
at the door. No one under 21 ad¬
mitted. Formal attire requested.

BAYMREAMPORTEReiASSIFIEDS

RECYCLE

AND FIGHT AIDS

Your glass, aluminum and
newspapers are worth CASH
for the AIDS Foundation and
the Shanti Project. Recycle at
Market/Duboce and Kezar
Stadium centers.

Information: San Francisco
Recycling Program, City Hall

554-6193

Superior Accommodations in an
Immaculate European Style Hotel
Conveniently Located near The
Civic Center

GOLDEN

QTYINN

1554 Howard St.
Between 11th & 12th
431-9376

2 Bdrm flat bright 1000 sq. ft.,
hot tub, w/w crpt, DW, S&R W/D
avail. $795/mo. Fell/Steiner,
864-6626. E21

$500 1 Bdrm sublet in Castro
6/1-9/1. Fully furn. Eves.
626-3058. E21

CASTRO LUXURY FLAT
2-1- bdrm, fireplace, garage, cen¬
tral heat, yard, all new ap¬
pliances, laundry room, dish
washer. Just remodeled. New
wood shutters. 16th & Sanchez,
$1,200 a month. Call Mike
864-2295 E22

Memorial Day Open House
Oakland S - 3 bd. remid. AEK,
Cable TV, Lndry, $365 to $665
-I- deposit. 536-9229. E21

IHCAlRf DISlRIC'l

WINTON HOTEL

COMMUNITY

RENTALS

• Over 1300 Apts, flats &
houses each month.

• Vacancies in all city areas.

• 2 convenient offices.

• Open 7 days a week.

• Gay owned/Gay staffed.

552-9595

44") OTarrHI
S2<) |)« t ni^ht

«H")-19aH
$75 per week

$75 a week — $20 a night
For Gays since 1970

24 Hr. desk

NATIONAL HOTEL

1H9 Markets!. 864-914!

Shr. 2Br. in Castro $395-1- 1st/
last. Util incl. Laundry rm. Call
Pete at 864-3846 5-9 PM week¬
days AM weekends. Avail now.
GM 35-1- preferred._^

$850 Ig. 2 bdrm flat Oak/
Octavia, hdwd fl, new W/W
carpet, new paint, high ceilings,
storage. 626-4958. Leave night
time number. E22

Lg. Lux. 2 Bdrm 2 ba. flat.
Sunny, W/D, pets ok, gar, carpet,
7-9, 282-3440._^

Shop/Apt. $800 mo. Divis nr.
Page. Call Gabe 433-4500.

E21

2 bdrm, semi furn. nr. Castro. AvI
6/1, 700-hutil & dep 864-4078
E21

Russian River 2 bd/2 ba hse.
wkly/wknd rates. 863-2490.

E21

Lg. 2 + rm. Studio, Refin. Hdwd,
Nu Dec., Sunny, Lndry, Gar, cat
ok, 14 nr. Mkt. $495. 863-4624.

E21

Castro Furnished Rooms, Remod.
$125-$135/wk. 626-4517. E33

BEST POLK ST. ADDRESS

SMALL FRIENDLY ROOMING
HOUSE ATMOSPHERE-GAY BLG.

THE SHIRLEY

1544 Polk nr. Sacramento 92R-3353

from $75 per week

DAILY

WEEKLY

HACIENDA HOTEL

580 O'Farrell St.

Newly Decorated
large, clean, sunny rooms
with and without bath

S20 + up Daily
$85 4- up Weekly

14151 928-3450

2 blocks from the Hilton
3 blocks from Union Square

DONNELLY HOTEL

Clean Quiet

Central to Polk, Folsom, Castro Areas
$75 wk. & up

1272 Market Street
552-3373

CIVIC CENTER HOTEL

S up $20 (M» up

20-12th St. (nr. Market & Van Ness)
861-2373

$500 — LARGE
SUNNY STUDIO &
KITCHEN NOOK

View. Hdwd. Firs.. Cable. Transp
600 Fell St.. San Francisco

(415)626-2041

Bunkhousel^pts.

Office: 419 Ivy Street
San Francisco
Mon.-Fri. 1-6 PM
Or By Appointment

Commercial Space
Available for Retail

Studio, 419 Ivy # 8 .
Studio, 419 Ivy #16 .
Studio, 419 Ivy #30 .
1 bd Flat, 458 Ivy . .
Lg. Flat, 633 Hayes .

$500

$550

$550

$600

$750

Stove, refrigerator, car¬
pets and curtains included.
First and last months rent
required. No deposits. Must
be employed.

863-6262

All the dish
that’s fit to print.

M Roommate. Extrairg bdrm
w/priv full bath in nice apt. Sun¬
ny balcony, fireplace. Chestnut &
Polk, $400/mo. Avail. 7/1, Pat
776-4759._^

S375 DIAMOND/20TH
Shr. W/GWM Ig. flat with pano
view. Trompe I'oeil in dining room.
Must be empl/have refs. $250
dep & rent required. Mike
621-3269._^

GWM 35-F to share Irg. Viet,
house w/same. BV area. Refs req.
Must like dogs. $550-fy2 util.
864-6644 aft. 7 PM. E 2 i

$ 280/mo. -F% util. Sunny Mission
Dist. 1st & last. Eves, wknds
431-0819_^

Marin. 2M want 3rd any race to
shr hse/pool. Own B/R $325-Fut.
18-38. John 454-6203. E2i

GM to share beaut mod flat.
Laundry, no smokers, $350 in¬
cludes utils. 931-3104. E21

Non-Smoking M/F to share
beaut. 4 bdrm home w/two Prof
Gay Men. Frpic, deck, yard.
Animal lover. $4253-73 util. 1st &
last, refs. Richmond, Hilltop.
223-1228. _^

Berkeley Hills Home Share
Share this lovely 3 br. 2 ba home
in Kensington w/1 GWM, NS. Pet
OK. 2 rm avail, for 1-2 others.
$600-2 rms/$300 1 rm. Huge
garden and yard. Beautiful. Chris
525-8264 eves/mssg. E21

Concord-GWM to share 2 bdrm
apt. A/C, D/W, Pool, NS pref.
$300-f Tt util. & sec. 682-3247.

E21

Palatial Victorian flat to share
with 2 gay men. Luxuriously fur¬
nished, fireplaces, wood floors,
large kitchen opens onto formal
garden. $300 per month, Va utili¬
ties, security, references required.
Mackenzie Poe, 864-2709 eve¬
nings & weekends. 864-3456
d^ys._E 21

Prof. Gay Male seeks roommate
for 6 room apt. 17th & Noe.
Fireplace W/D $425 mo. Quiet at¬
mosphere. 863-5295. E2i

VALLEJO

GWM 59, shr hse, must be
emplyd, no drgs (707)557-4692
E21

Share House East Oakland
Me: Leatherman. You: Open
minded GM/F AvI now $345 mo.
Ist/last -F $400sec. + 14util/
72 cable. Refs reqd. Smoker(both)
OK. No drugs. Sundeck, Parking
Near AC & Bart 261-1234 after
6 PM._^

Female, 30's, Professional, seeks
sim. to share lux. condo, upr Mkt.
Priv. bdrm, bth, tennis, $495.
Furn. 861-6438. E2i

Chair for rent in Union Street
salon. Rent 450-500 a month.
Call Paul at 567-2909. E 21

SJ Nude Model Wanted
Good pay, 18-30, Super Body.
Leave message (408) 249-5224
E29

PHOTO SHOP SALESMAN
Perm. PIT 25 to 30 hrs. P/wk
neighborhood shop. Knowledge
of foto & Spanish helpful, not re¬
quired. Mid age pref. Call Walt
586-8300, 11 to 5._^

PORN WRITERS

Nat'l men's mag. Must have vivid
imagination re; young male fan¬
tasy. Excel. PIT income. Editor,
(619) 278-9050. _^

Hairstylist Wanted for Castro
Shop. Call 552-1460._^

Opening for Stylists in Union St.
salon. Sliding scale. Pay up to
70% of the dollar. Call Paul at
567-2909 or 621-8923. E21

Street Maintenance

For details call

863-6262

M-F 2pm to 5pm

^ IV/Y HOTEL

DAiiY .WEEKLY •month, .

S 70 & Up Weekly

(415) 863-6388

^9 0ct.Y.:.< SF , CA 94107

3

Hotel Leland

1315 Polk 5t. at Bush
5An rRAMCisco, CA 94109
(415) 441-5141

GREAT LOCATION!! GREAT RATES!!

Over 100 sunny spacious rooms - rooms with bath -
studios color tv's ^ phones - maid service - 24 hour de5^

liEW MAhAQEMEITT 5IMCE JULY 1986

- GAY SHELTER -

A shared room, all meals and im¬
mediate work is available now at
the U.S. Mission. 2 locations.
788 O'Farrell & 86 Golden Gate,
or call 775-5866 or 775-6446.

guys needed

FOR FANTASY CALLS

Adult, uninhibited X-rated conversa¬
tion. All shifts. Call Rick (415)
558-8969.

NEED A ROOMMATE

OUR GAY ROOMMATE SERVICE
HAS HELPED 1000s OF
GAY MEN AND LESBIANS

552-8868

Hallways Maintenance

For details call
863-6262
M-F 2pm to 5pm

BAY AREA REPORTER MAY 21, 1987 PAGE 45

BAY/AREAIUPORTERGLASSIFIEDS

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

wanted for successful entrepre
neur. Good comm, and ability to
perform var. of tasks at the same
time. Send app./Resume to B.H.W.
4213 26th St., SF, CA 94131.

E21

★ MODELS WANTED ★

Young men under 25 yrs wanted
for video, etc. (415) 922-6322.

E21

Phone Fantasy Service needs dir¬
ty talkers with deep voices. Call
864-1106, 9 AM-1 PM, M-F. E2i

★ ★ Actor ★ ★

18-30 for Star-Making Role in ex¬
plosive new play. Great acting op¬
portunity, some nudity, pay.
928-5598 for interview. E21

TRAVEL AGENT

Growing Castro Agy needs
Dynamic Agent w/2 yrs SABRE
min. Following a plus. Growth
and incentives for the right per¬
son 626-1169. E23

Operator/Manager for small
resort. Requires personality,
creativity, confinement & hvy
workload: Reservations, cleaning
rms, Jacuzzi, dock, lawns,
grounds, etc. Rewards: House/Of¬
fice, util. 15% Gross. Write
w/photo to Lake Place, P.O. Box
12, Glenhaven, CA 95443 or call
(707) 998-3331. E21

J/0 Dancers w/gd Iks for all male
audience. Auditions 775-4265
or apply 145 Eddy St. E2i

Telephone Fund-Raisers to
help shelter for homeless gays.
High commission. FT/PT. Start
immediately, 474-7198. E21

Erotic nude perf. for adult gay
cinema. Up to $1000 per wk.
729 Bush M-F after 11am eb

^itCa

Palm Springs

A Unique Desert
Resort Community
(Formerly Dave's Villa Caprice)
Completely refurbished
bungalow suites shaded by
a canopy of palm trees,
available monthly, weekly
and nightly.

SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY
RATES NOW IN EFFECT

Let us welcome you to Our oasis.
For Information/Reservations
call (619) 328-7211
67-670 Carey Road
Cathedral City, California 92234

The Circle Jerk Club
Very erotic & very safe!

For info send $2 to the C/J Club,
P.O. Box 640548, San Francisco,
CA 94109. E21

AFFORDABLE
LEGAL SERVICE

BANKRUPTCY $225
WILLS • CORPS • PARTNERSHIPS
LAW OFFICE OF

SCOTT V. SMITH
863-1417

FINANCIAL

PROBLEMS?

FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION
WITH EXPERIENCED ATTORNEY
Walter R. Nelson 864-0449

PWA APT. SALE

16 Fairmount, 5/23 & 24, 10-6,
285-7584. E2i

ELECTROLYSIS

Permanent Hair Removal
50% off first visit. Mike (408)
374-0496 or 997-9149. E23

Swedish Massage - San Jose
Early Bird Special, 6 AM-11 AM
through June 30 - $20/1 hr.
Anthony (408) 288-6169.

- " ■■^——1 I .

“When you have ^
to be sure
that your move
is right”

Specializing in offices
and households.

Licensed • Insured

GEMINI

MOVERS

( 415 ) 929-8609

(CAL. 1142874)

BROTHER'S HAULERS

One guy, or two
and a pick-up. . .

Hauling

Furniture Deliveries
Dump Runs

Clear Yards & Basements
You name it!!

Fast • Hard Workers

CALL US TODAY
HOME 648-2247
DISPLAY PAGER 991-8603

After 3 beeps, enter your phone #

Wait for beeps & hang up

Save 15-50% on Moving & Storage!

Family-owned by Bay Area Natives.
Free Wardrobes & Free Estimates.
Quick, courteous, gentle crews.
Save money & trees: We lend boxes!
6 fully equipped 18-30’ trucks!
No hidden fees-Same rate 7 days!
Professional, caring 8i affordable.
We take Plastic & Checks too!

HAULING ON WITH RON

Reasonable Rates 285-9846

EB

Save $ You do the work, we do
the driving. Sm./Lgr. Truck
$20/30/40 HR. 558-8863 E28

Cheap Hauling
Fast & Efficient 386-0263

E21

R & R Hauling, Yards,
Basements, $25 a load plus
dump fee. Call 552-2585

E24

Hauling, etc. Big Pickup Truck.
★ $30 min. Bill 441-1054 ★

E24

SUNSHINE MOVERS

Kelly's Hauling
Service

Large Truck/Experienced Men

861-2216 • 337-9744

• Lowest Legal Rates

• Expert Piano Moving
- 24 Hr./7 Day Service

• Licensed 8i Fully Insured

• Corporate and Office

• Packing with Care

Ik J j t CallJeremy

^ FOR FREE ESTIMATE

821-9440

/ r CAL T 140575

HAULING

DISMANTLING

Garages • Basements • Attics
Yards • Apartment Complexes
Free Estimates

Dan (415) 864-3570

OFFICE CLOSED MEMORIAL DAY, MONDAY, MAY 25
Classified Deadline will be 5 p.m. Friday, May 22

High Energy GWM seeks chal¬
lenging P/T, F/T position. Self¬
starter, great w/people. Excel.
organizational skills. Accounting
& computer knowledge (Lotus 1,
2, 3, Wang W.P.), Christopher
665-2923. E22

Tokyo (Non-Stop) $450 RT

Hong Kong $549 RT

Singapore $599 RT

New York $199 RT

150 Powell St, #402
Michael (415) 788-7232

POMO

PEACH

(^TTAGES

A ONCLEARLAKE

Will sleep 4 with eqt. Kit.

Boat Docking & Privacy
Week-Month & 3-Day Rates

(707) 998-9501

P.O. Box 106, Glenhaven CA 95443

NO RUN PANTYHOSE

Need Distributors Urgently
_626-6899 E22

Gay bar and rest, including real
estate - mid peninsula. (415)
366-4955 8 AM to 12 PM.

E25

hegai
Servieen, ■

- LAWYER —

Criminal • Civil • Business
Gov't Benefits • Mediation
AFFORDABLE

Bob Douglas (415) 566-ATTY

jGAY LEGAL REFERRAL
1 SERVICE

Project of

BAY AREA LAWYERS
FOR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM
DISCRIMINATION
REAL ESTATE - BUSINESS
CRIMINAL LAW
PERSONAL INJURY
FAMILY LAW
621-3900 I

$20 Referral Fee for first 1 / 2 hour i

consultation. Spme low fee or no fee j
referrals available. i

Your CommunitY
Bulletin Board.

Bay Area Reporter.

Lotus Hauling to the dump
Sm.-Lge. truck 626-3131

E28

OMEB1GMAN&

ONE BIG

Specta UAinq in Koommortn Bnlocxxtion
mrwtumstosroTchoillJM (415)931-0193

Small Truck - Haul What Fits
$20 - David. 863-5591. E 26

“FREE WARDROBE RENTAL”

HOUSEHOLD • OFFICE
MOVING & STORAGE

LOWEST LEGAL RATES

Cal P.U.C.T.-14

Midnight Cowboys
Hauling • Relocating • Delivery
Small Jobs OK. • 387-6734
E22

MOVING BACK EAST??
or THERB AT WARP SPEED!!!

THE BEST MOVERS IN THE GALAXY!

Our network of independenf movers
is safer, faster, & cheaper too!
Daily runs: NY, Bos, DC., Mia, Atl.
Days, not weeks to the East Coast.
Only 500 pound minimum, too.
Pickup dates at your convenience!
Need storage? 6 days tree!
Guaranteed rates/No hidden charges!
Free CHAMPAGNE with your move too!
You can’t beat our service 8i rates.

CAU ANYTIME

652-7787

5% OF PROFITS
DONATED TO PEACE/
ENVIRONMENTAL CAUSES!

MAXSON MOVING

Qualified • Courteous
24 Hrs, • Low Rates
Insured • CAL T 153094

665-4091 • 681-0954

Flints Hauling & Relocation Ser¬
vices. $13 hr. Call 863-8482.
Large Truck - 12 yrs. Expr.

E22

20FT Van. Med & Large Jobs
Exp., 24 hrs, beeper, 548-0153
E22

Trucking Service, Etc.
Hauling/Garage/Basement
Lot Clearing - 10 yrs. Expr.
Call J. W. Leo, 863-3728

E22

Painting Int/Ext. ExI. Refs
Free est. Viktor 648-9591

E21

Reasonable & Reliable
Handywork-Think R&R 566-0646

__ E21

★ Handyman Extrodinaire ★
Prompt, Dependable
Variety of Skills
Chuck Bent, (415) 552-7624

__ E22

★ ★Basement Enlargements★
★ Foundation Repair ★
Seismic Update Call
John Marsh Engr & Constr
822-5552 Lie. 412431

E26

BAY AREA REPORTER MAY 21. 1987 PAGE 46

ESAY/^REAnSEPORTERSLASSIFIEDS

Floor Refinishing

Installation — Repair

BOBOIRSA 861-3241 #353

KITCHEN/

BATHS/TILE

COMPLETE REMODEUREPAIR
Competent—Reasonable

GARY 863 5064

Restoration Floor

Remodeling Refinishing
Pointing & Installation

CHRIS (415) 979-8815

ing I

inn

LEHMAN ELEaWC

of California

Electrictans for Home and Bunnets

( 415 ) 431-5975

Evening ^>pts. Available
CSl494965

Hutchins

construction

Construction Consultant

861-5439

“Seiving

ECTRIC\ o^

“Seiving the Community
Since 197r

MR

ELECTRIC \ <-». *326155
COMMERCIAL RESIDENTIAL

Bars Restaurant Speciaist New or Remodding

(415) 641-5818

TILEMAN

Ceramic tile and marble work.
Call 626-3131, ext. 300. E2S

German Carpenter
Tilework, Floor Refinishing
Remodeling, Painting int/ext.
Chris, 550-9149 E23

Reliable Paint Operation
Full-Service, Qual. Int./Ext.
Tony, Chris 467-8842 E 22

Let Dave Do It

Housecleaning $9/hr. any & every¬
thing you hate to do or just don't
have the time for. Vacancy clean¬
ing. painting, light yard work, etc;
$12/hr. 4hr. minimum

Dave 553-3855

THE TELEPHONE MAN
PHONE INSTALLATION AND REPAIR
REASONABLE RATES
ALL WORK GUARANTEED
CALL JIM (413)441-3310

Upholstery Connection

CUSTOM UFMOLSTEKY * FA6RICS
FREE ESn MATES
FREE PlCISUParDEUVERY

Steve Copeland

2325 Third St., #432 • S.F. 94107

863-5596

it Sheetrock it Plastering it
Painting. Ref. Ben. 536-5119
E25

SAVE MONEY

For a short time we will clean
any rug or carpet for 20% off
list price SAVE MONEY by
having us clean your floor
coverings before the ,'ir

Spring rush.

David Del Rosario 285-9908

GENERAL CARPENTRY

Home • Office • Apt.
Remodeling • Repair
Customized to Your Satisfaaion

952-7696

EXPERT CARPENTRY

Have a bimch of smaN jobs
or a large one? CaN us in.

25 years of friendly experience.
FREE ESTIMATESI

821-0644

^ CABINETMAKERS

m.E.F.G^ ERIC&

DANIEL
FURNITURE 431-7180

THOMAS STEVENS

Remodeling/Design

Custom Furn./Cabinetry
Woodwork/Tile/Laminates
Glass Brick 641-1126

E26

PEACHES PAINTING

lO-A COST iNTtRlO# f XTf PAINTING

OUAllI 1 aopxmanship

fPM fSIlMAIfS

Jim/Ken

641-9434

Sheila’s Repairs

PLUMBING

ELECTRICAL

CARPENTRY

861-5439

ELECTRICIAN

"SERVICE IS OUR BUSINESS"

PLUMBER

GARY 863 S064

MANBIRTEBS Painting.Carpentry
(tiS) 621 - 2 eS 2

and GARDENING AND CLEANERS.

FREE estimates.

Professionals
Home & Office Cleaning
Roger 431-8243 Ref. Exp.

E22

MOOD MUSIC

High Quality Professional Mixes
Designed to Set Atmosphere for
Parties, Bars, Home Reasonable
price, 90 min. Cali 864-6252.

E21

GERMAN LESSONS

Robert, 285-6738

E21

Expert Housecleaner
7 Yrs. Expr • Refs • 863-9053
E23

Housekeeper-Young, Reliable
Refs. 5 Yrs. Expr. Will cook. Call
Scott 647-3925. E22

VCR Problem

Professional Technician
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